September 24th, 2006
Samuel Longhorn “Sam” Clemens and Mark Twain Wild N’ Out
I kinda like the saying “You have Your Vices and I have Mine” - although I want to take credit for this aphorism or paradigm thingy…I truely cannot remember if I heard it somewhere or came up with it all by Mesylf!
Now just in case you aren’t familiar with Mr. Sam Clemens aka Mark Twain…He was the person who rode in and out on Haley’s Comet…and I’m not kidding.
I don’t have time now to delve into this as much as I would like…but here is what I heard about Mark or Sam: (I hope I get this right…if not then it sure makes for a good story)
Here are a few things that I found interesting about this…this amazingly accomplished man of men: The Time Line Will Blow Your Mind!
-He nvented garment straps
-He loved his whisky and cigars and managed to live to be a productive 74 yr old
-He is accredited with 3 patents one of which was Mark Twains Interactive Scrap Book and another was the memory builder game
-He was a fully liscensed pilot
-He tells good stories like and he “Tells it like it is”
-He had alot of money and went bankrupt In 1984 which resulted in failure of his printing firm and investments…
-He hung out on Jackass Hill with the frogs and Smiley
-The best part is he actually worked his ass off and paid all his Debt IN PULL…I wonder if his bank mismanaged his funds and fuked up his life and credit…Help
-I believe somewhere in there he had a mission to change the credit card policies cause it’s killing 80% of us
and um…
I will pick up on the rest later..
I think unicorns and miracles are the coolest.
I would stay and chat but I gotta go to Dr. Luda’s Release Therapy Session…so ttfn
and kudos to the following for steppin shit up… you really got people thinkin: in alpha order
Myself
Tupac
Ludacris - Count ur clix…brilliant!
Pharrell
Snoop
Young Joc
and the Show Stoppers
Does anyone know specifically what this document is? eh?
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
- Mark Twain
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven’t been done before.
- Mark Twain
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
- Mark Twain
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity — another man’s I mean.
- Mark Twain
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
- Mark Twain
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
- Mark Twain
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
- Mark Twain
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.
- Mark Twain
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
- Mark Twain
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
- Mark Twain
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
- Mark Twain
I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
- Mark Twain
I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
- Mark Twain
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.
- Mark Twain
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
- Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
- Mark Twain
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
- Mark Twain