Tag: Mark Twain

  • Dan

    Interesting reading

    I have been hitting some articles and essays over the past few weeks and wanted to pass along the fun, the challenging, and the insane. First, some Mark Twain quotes:

  • Dan

    The unvarnished private thoughts and opinions

    “I, like all other human beings, expose to the world only my trimmed and perfumed and carefully barbered public opinions and conceal carefully, cautiously, wisely, my private ones.” — Mark Twain Tough in the age of social media. My opinions aren’t exactly carefully barbered, but they are somewhat cut to look a little neater.

  • Dan

    Happy Birthday, Mark Twain

    Some favorite quotes: “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting…

  • Dan

    The Brian Williams Syndrome

    Brian Williams of NBC has been suspended for six months without pay for embellishing stories. It’s a common problem with journalists. They want too much to BE the story. Where have you gone, Walter Cronkite? Some are recommending politicians face the same suspension, but that’s part of their job description, isn’t it? I am reading through a wonderful Mark Twain…