Mark Twain Strikes Again

SCOPE has often quoted Will Rogers for some funny and timeless comments.

Here are some of the same from Mark Twain.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.  (Was Twain a Gannett newspaper subscriber?)

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.(Yep, he was definitely a Gannett subscriber?)

 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. (Or as Yogi Berra might have said, 75% of life is just showing up.)

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. (Was he talking about non-voters?)

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.  (Contrary  to the previous saying.)

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. (Isn’t being great contrary to Equity in Outcomes?)

And if you think only Mark Twain had a sense of humor:
And to show New York State has the same sense of humor as California:
If Twain were still alive, he would agree with the following:
And finally, trust San Francisco to be on the cutting edge of crazy.  Remember the controversy when liberal cities like S.F. created areas for drug addicts to shoot up and began giving out free syringes.  One could almost predict where this will go.  San Francisco now spends $2 million a year (or maybe $5 million) on a “Managed Alcohol Program.” It provides free Alcohol to people struggling with chronic alcoholism who are mostly homeless.  Nurses dispense “controlled doses” of vodka and beer to street people at specific times of the day.

Joshua Trees are a species supposedly threatened by “climate change.” A 2013 study concluded that, as temperatures rise and conditions become drier, it is anticipated that the available habitat for Joshua trees will diminish by as much as 90 percent.

Solar power is viewed as an answer to “climate change.”

4,200 Joshua trees are scheduled to be removed and replaced by solar panels for the Aratina Solar Project near Boron, CA in June of this year.

NY State has been doing everything possible to drive up the cost of electricity.  NY’s goals include cutting electricity use by raising the price and making solar generated electricity more competitive by raising the cost of fossil fuel generated electricity.  In the recent electric bill, there is a credit which is explained as, “This credit is part of New York State’s ongoing efforts to support energy affordability.”

No one will ever accuse the NY State government of being consistent.

If you are okay with having Joe Biden tell you how to raise your children, consider how Hunter turned out.

We picked a bad generation to start WW3.  They can’t even fight anxiety over being called the wrong pronoun.