Creative Quotations from . . .
Mark Twain
(1835-1910) born on Nov 30
US "novelist, journalist, river pilot". "The "Great American humorist" was also known as "The People's Author" and creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn."
 
   
F
Never learn to do anything; if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you."

R
"Warm summer sun, shine kindly here;
Warm southern wind, blow softly here;
Green sod above, lie light, lie light --
Good night, dear heart, good night, good night."
A
Name the greatest of all the inventors. Accident.
N
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter -- 'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
K
"Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! -- incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "Quotable Business," ed. Louis E. Boone, 1992."
R: "Epitaph for an adopted daughter, ca. 1885."
A: ""Notebook," 1935."
N: ""The Art of Authorship.""
K: "Pudd'nhead Wilson, ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar," 1894."



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