Posted on 04/21/2010 11:32:29 AM PDT by Borges
Does anyone know what he was doing in Hawaii on the Big Island way back when?
Only Eighty Years ago here.
“When the world ends I want to be in Cincinnati because it it always twenty years behind the times”
attr: Mark Twain
Gees...now who’s gonna paint the fence?
“How wonderful is science... One gets such wholesale returns in conjecture for such trifling investments in fact.” -Mark Twain
“Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.” - Mark Twain
“”No generalization is worth a damn, including this one.” - Mark Twain
Is that attributed?
I seem to recall that there are many false quotations attributed to Mark Twain as well as George Carlin and others.
The rumors of my death . . . were not exaggerated this time.
Twain became a leftist later in life opposing the Spanish American War and advocating labor unions.
“Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.”
For anybody who might be interested: an old Edison film of the man himself and his daughters from 1909.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leYj—P4CgQ
Hal Holbrook could still do an entertaining performance as Twain when I saw him in the 2000s.
Do you think that he would side with today’s unions aligned with organized crime?
He was on assignment from the Sacramento Union.
“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”
Back before computers were hugely popular and definitely before scanners and such were commonplace, I received a notice from Reader’s Digest that gave my name and how long I’d been a subscriber. So for example:
“Green Pastures has been a subscriber since before 1961.”
Thing was, the year they gave was a few years before I was even born.
I _so_ wanted to have that notice with the caption, “Reports of my birth have been greatly exaggerated.” I tried doing it by hand, messed it up and white out just didn’t do the trick. :-(
If I had only waited another 15 years I could have scanned and photoshopped it!
;-)
“I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.” - Mark Twain
Twain offered to publish Grant's memoirs and give him 75% of the profits. Grant was dying of cancer at the time, was in financial trouble and needed money for his family. Twain was also suffering a financial setback, so his offer was very generous.
Grant died shortly after the completion of his memoirs and Twain honored the agreement. Grant's widow received around $400,000 from the deal.
He's been doing that for decades....it's probably 50 or 52 years since my Mom took me to see "Mark Twain Tonight" someplace down in Hollywood.........I was really into all the Tom Sawyer stuff at the time. I'll never forget it.
He’d be a liberal on MSNBC, making the chattering class circuit.
Gotta agree with you on that.
I have no idea.
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