Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.
Mark TwainTag: memory
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.
Mark TwainFirst they done a lecture on temperance; but they didn't make enough for
them both to get drunk on. Then in another village they started a
dancing-school; but they didn't know no more how to dance than a kangaroo
does; so the first prance they made the general public jumped in and
pranced them out of town. Another time they tried to go at yellocution;
but they didn't yellocute long till the audience got up and give them a
solid good cussing, and made them skip out.
Tag: humor huckleberry-finn
It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.
Mark TwainIn a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man
Mark TwainTag: humor
جریان زندگی چیزی جز مبارزه میان عاطفه وعقل نیست .
Mark TwainTag: مارک-تواین
Сега не съм по-мързелив, отколкото бях преди 40г., но то е защото още преди 40г. бях достигнал крайния предел на мързела. Човек не е в състояние да надхвърли възможностите ти.
Mark TwainTag: humor
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Mark TwainTag: hilarity
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
Mark TwainTag: inspirational morality intellect adam-and-eve
I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.
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