>Can anyone on the list tell me if the following quotation is really >attributable to our guy: "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns >something he can learn in no other way." Just curious. It sounds like >Twain, but I've never encountered it before. It may well be as spurious as >the golf quotation he never uttered. That's not the exact wording, but it's genuine. I found it on Barb Schmidt's Twain Quotations site, attributed to Tom Sawyer Abroad: " ... a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful." -- Bob G.