Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on August 7, 2020There is perhaps no greater testament to Twain’s lasting reputation than the habitual misattribution of miscellaneous wit and wisdom to his name. The circulation of such apocryphal aphorisms was common enough in the...
Category: The Apocryphal Twain
Kindness is language the deaf can hear
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on June 1, 2017There is perhaps no greater testament to Twain’s lasting reputation than the habitual misattribution of miscellaneous wit and wisdom to his name. The circulation of such apocryphal aphorisms was common enough in the...
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on July 14, 2021There is perhaps no greater testament to Twain’s lasting reputation than the habitual misattribution of miscellaneous wit and wisdom to his name. The circulation of such apocryphal aphorisms was common enough in the...
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you do, you’re misinformed.”
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on February 21, 2018There is perhaps no greater testament to Twain’s lasting reputation than the habitual misattribution of miscellaneous wit and wisdom to his name. The circulation of such apocryphal aphorisms was common enough in...
“If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.”
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on February 27, 2020There is perhaps no greater testament to Twain’s lasting reputation than the habitual misattribution of miscellaneous wit and wisdom to his name. The circulation of such apocryphal aphorisms has increased with the...
I have never let schooling interfere with my education
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on November 16, 2017As we near the end of fall term, the days get shorter, the mornings get colder, and students, teachers, and parents alike get increasingly agitated. Under such conditions, the problems of our schools, real and...
Golf is a good walk spoiled
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on July 14th, 2017Malcolm Gladwell began the second season of his Revisionist History podcast with an episode about the public subsidization of expensive private golf clubs. He called the episode “A Good Walk Spoiled,” but wisely...
“America is built on a tilt and everything loose slides to California.”
(Plus Things Mark Twain
Really Said About California!)
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on April 2, 2021There is perhaps no greater testament to Twain’s lasting reputation than the habitual misattribution of miscellaneous wit and wisdom to his name. The circulation of such apocryphal aphorisms was common enough in the...
It is easier to con a man than to convince him he has been conned
There is perhaps no greater testament to Twain’s lasting reputation than the habitual misattribution of miscellaneous wit and wisdom to his name. The circulation of such apocryphal aphorisms was common enough in the 20th century. It has only increased with the...
Data is like garbage. You’d better know what you’re going to do with it before you collect it
There is perhaps no greater testament to Twain’s lasting reputation than the habitual misattribution of miscellaneous wit and wisdom to his name. The circulation of such apocryphal aphorisms was common enough in the 20th century. It has only increased with the...