 From LIFE magazine, 1898 |
...he wasn't a very heavy weight, intellectually. His head was an hour-glass;
it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the
whole idea at once. Endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around
the globe four times and tie. |
He is dead and buried now, though; let him rest, let him rot. Let his vices
be forgotten, but his virtues be remembered; it will not infringe much upon
any man's time.
- "Reportorial," Territorial
Enterprise, February 26, 1863 (mock obituary for the "Unreliable")
...knew all salt water learning, but in land matters didn't know as much as
a dial in the dark.
- quoted in "Relics of Mark Twain," Boston Daily Globe, February
4, 1911, pg. 11 - a story on marginalia and separate notes found tucked in Mark
Twain's personal library books
He would have been a black and tan terrier only there wasn't room enough on
him for both colors.
- quoted in "Relics of Mark Twain," Boston Daily Globe, February
4, 1911, pg. 11 - a story on marginalia and notes found tucked in Mark Twain's
personal library books
Of a much praised book by Henry James--once you put it down, you simply can't
pick it up.
- quoted without source in Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain, Alex Ayres-editor.
The quote has also been attributed to Mark Twain as a reaction to Jane Austen's
work.
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