John, I think it's inscribed on the inside of that guitar. Very faint.

Bob


At 03:01 PM 2/9/2013, you wrote:
>A friend of mine posted this quotation on Facebook the other day: 
>“If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it the first 
>thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, 
>it’s best to eat the biggest one first.” This was attributed, of 
>course, to Mark Twain. I wrote him back that I had never seen this 
>one anywhere in Twain’s works, which didn’t prove much, but that 
>it didn’t sound like him to me. I told him I would do a search and 
>try to find out its provenance (today’s word of the day du jour!).
>
>I could not find it at www.twainquotes. A Google search, though, 
>gave me hundreds of hits: blogs, Pinterest, quote sites, etc., all 
>with the same quote, all attributing it to Twain, but not one of 
>them giving a source in his writing. All roads seemed to lead to a 
>book by Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!, which is a short book of advice 
>on avoiding procrastination, very popular with writers, self-help 
>folks, business advice, etc.
>
>I have a time-wasting hobby (good to employ when I am 
>procrastinating) of tracking down spurious Mark Twain quotations. I 
>was surprised I had not encountered this one, since it is so 
>widespread. So I call on the collective wisdom here to tell me if it 
>is indeed from Mr. Mark Twain,and if so, where. I will be so 
>surprised if it is that I will eat a live frog, in front of witnesses.
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>John Bird
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