Mark Twain Quote

[Reaper]

I have over a dozen billion years of experience in not existing. I think my next go at it will be pretty much the same.

 

On being dead.

[the tree]

Paraphrasing Mark Twain doesn't count.

[ydoaPs]

What are you talking about, tree?

[the tree]

What are you talking about, tree?

As I'm sure you are really aware.

I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Is well known to be attributed to Mark Twain well before, well, you._{[Mark Twain quotes]}

[ydoaPs]

As I'm sure you are really aware.Is well known to be attributed to Mark Twain well before, well, you._{[Mark Twain quotes]}

 

I've never heard that quote before. He said it better than I did, IMO. I'm sure someone said something similar prior to him. Does that mean he was paraphrasing someone else?

[swansont]

One has to question, though, how mark Twain knew the age of the universe way back when, >100 years ago. The best estimates of the age of the earth and universe were significantly less than a billion years in Twain's/Clemens's time.

 

Or perhaps he was speaking metaphorically?

[Sisyphus]

Clearly, the man was way ahead of his time.

[antimatter]

One has to question, though, how mark Twain knew the age of the universe way back when, >100 years ago. The best estimates of the age of the earth and universe were significantly less than a billion years in Twain's/Clemens's time.

 

Or perhaps he was speaking metaphorically?

 

I think he was merely using a hyperbole, unless of course there is a lot more to Mark Twain than we think...

[Reaper]

I haven't found any references to 12 billion years by Mark Twain.

[MrSandman]

I know you'll think of me as a racist after this but here I go...

"A Frenchman's home is where another man's wife is."-Mark Twain