Comments on: Was it Twain?

By: Josh K-sky

Josh K-sky — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:41:16 +0000

Inspirational author William W. Purkey claims that he closed speeches with the line for years before Susanna Clark set it to music:

http://manchester-blog.com/dance-like-nobodys-watching/

By: Thea

Thea — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:51:28 +0000

KMango: You are totally right about the title! I’m going to try to think of an appropriate prize. Will e-mail you directly.

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/wihoh.html

And John: Thanks for the quick research! There is a Snuggie in your future. And you’re right – waaay too schmaltzy for Twain.

By: KMango

KMango — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:11:10 +0000

Too late for the all-loving Snuggie, but is the title a reference to “Which Was It”?

Or is it a perhaps a reference to “Twain”, meaning two, since you were calling out two quotes?

Or something else entirely…

By: John Salzberg

John Salzberg — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:21:53 +0000

First quote attribution does not sound like Twain or anything from his era, when men were men and not saps. Source on a wiki page links it more closely to a 1989 country music song by Susanna Clark.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Mark_Twain

This link attributes the lyrics to Susanna Clark rather than Clemens.

http://websterpacific.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-winner-within/

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Second quote seems to be attributed to Mark Twain in “A Biography by Albert Bigelow Paine. Check chapter 290

http://www.twainquotes.com/Humor.html
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/twain/mark/paine/chapter290.html