Mark Twain Quotes About Swimming

• If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Swimming, Ducks

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.143, Delphi Classics

• Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

  Mark Twain

  Swimming, People, Giving

• The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Cat

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.706, Jazzybee Verlag

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