Mark Twain

[Diversity]

Hi Everyone, I came across this saying from Mark Twain and I related it to our quest for acceptance and for the strength we need to justify our CD'ing, TG'ing, etc.. It fit me to a tee. I hope you all find some comfort in this quote from one of my favorite authors. Enjoy!
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover. -- Mark Twain

Thinking of you all. We are all different, but we have come to unite within the realm of this forum. I wish everyone much happiness and self discovery.
Love to you all,
Di
PS - I do get sentimental at times. Must be my femme side coming to surface....

[BLUE ORCHID]

Hi DI, Some of us will never cast off the chains that bind us.

[Diversity]

You're so right, Blue Orchid. BUT, I for one, will. I'm a free spirit - Jimmy Buffet style! :)
Di

[Teri Ray]

Love the Mark Twain famous quote thread. Is there nothing that cant be related to crossdressing? Thanks for sharing.

[audreyinalbany]

is there nothing that can't be related to quote by Mark Twain?

[sandra-leigh]

That quote has been my signature here for several years now. I found it written on a plaque on a rest-bench while I was hiking on part of the Trans-Canada trail, and took a picture of it so I could use it here.

[rita63]

I am more like Canadian humourist of the same era Stephen Leacock. I tend to "jump on my horse and ride off in all directions."

hugs rita

[ColleenCD]

Hi Di,

That is such a great quote, and so true. My personal favorite Mark Twain quote goes like this: "Outside a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read."

Colleen

[Persephone]

I love that quote! And I've always loved the one that Colleen posted; it is printed along the wall of our local library.

Mark Twain probably changed my life! When I was very young I was a prolific reader. I was probably around 8 when I read Huckleberry Finn and came upon Chapter 11. I believe it was the first time I ever heard of another boy putting on women's clothes (I'd been crossdressing since around the age of 2-1/2) and I was blown away! So it was possible! Nothing terrible happened to Huck! A bolt of lightening didn't strike him (something I'd been personally worried about)! And the kindly woman even gave him advice on how to be a better girl! I was in heaven!

By the way, the 1993 Disney version of the scene, starring Elijah Wood, stinks.

Hugs,
Persephone.

[Alice B]

He has always been my favorite author and I've read everything he ever wrote several times. Always loved that comment, but had never thought of using it in relation to my dressing. Thanks for the reminder.

[stephNE]

Thank you for posting the Mark Twain quote. It is quite inspiratiional. All of you gurls are great in here, thank you all so much. Steph.

[franlee]

I didn't know about his quote but I've been a firm believer in that same idea most of my life. And I incourage anybody to give it real consideration in their everyday life as well as this.

[kimdl93]

I read the Unabridged Complete Works of Mark Twain, Vol 1 & 2 aloud to my sons at bedtime. We got through the whole thing before they were too old for bedtime stories. They turned out to be pretty good kids - I credit Mark Twain.

[Angela Campbell]

Kim....it had nothing to do with Mark Twain. They turned out pretty good because you took the time to do things like bedtime stories. My kids turned out pretty good too.

[sandra-leigh]

My personal favorite Mark Twain quote goes like this: "Outside a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read."

Sorry to say but that is a quote by Groucho Marx

[Persephone]

Sorry to say but that is a quote by Groucho Marx

Yep, you're right! The wall of the library credits it to Graucho.

Hugs,
Persephone.

[Jilmac]

Samuel L Clemens AKA Mark Twain was ahead of his time and peers when it came to glib oratory. He also mentions crossdressing in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn where Huck puts on a calico dress to disguise himself as a girl. Who knows, maybe Mark was an advocate for our cause. Anyway, here are some of my Mark Twain favorites:

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living, the world owes you nothing, it was here first". "Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with". "Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough". "There's no use in walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful at home". And here is my all time favorite, "When I was fourteen I thought my father was the dumbest man in the world, when I turned twenty-one I was amazed at how much knowledge the old man had aquired in just seven short years.

[Leah Lynn]

Mark Twain is credited with the saying, "Never pick a fight with an old man. If he can't whip you, he'll just kill you."

Never pick a fight with this old man while wearing a dress. I put a small anvil in my purse.

[Anita_2]

My faforit book of M.T. is Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Lot of things how people are accepting how people are accepting different ideas and life filosophy has been told in this book. Persphone told about Chapter 11 of this book and that is about CD.

[EllenJo]

Diversity, love the quote and since this is turning into our favorite MT quotes, let me add one for those of us who are a little longer in the tooth. " The reason grandchildren and grandparents have such a strong bond is because they share a common enemy." My daughter hates this one.

[Beverley Sims]

That quote has been my signature here for several years now. I found it written on a plaque on a rest-bench while I was hiking on part of the Trans-Canada trail, and took a picture of it so I could use it here.
Yes it is a wonderful quote, and all embracing as well.

[ColleenA]

I just came across a great statement from him while reading "Roughing It," and it works no matter what your political bent: "The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two."

[docrobbysherry]

Here's an even better quote from a friend of mine; "100 years, all new people!" U, and everyone else on the planet now will be GONE!

So, no matter how ridiculous, strange, perverted, scared, or weird u feel or anyone thinks u r, in 100 years no one will remember or care!

[Lady Slipper]

My favorite M.T. quote? "Golf is a great way to ruin a perfectly good walk."