I concur that this one gets a 10 on the bogus meter. Some hits for that in Google Books, but they're all in the internet age. Someday I'm going to write a book called "Talking about the weather: The greatest things that Mark Twain never Said." On Saturday, February 9, 2013, John Bird wrote: > A friend of mine posted this quotation on Facebook the other day: = > =E2=80=9CIf it=E2=80=99s your job to eat a frog, it=E2=80=99s best to do = > it the first thing in the morning. And if it=E2=80=99s your job to eat = > two frogs, it=E2=80=99s best to eat the biggest one first.=E2=80=9D This = > was attributed, of course, to Mark Twain. I wrote him back that I had = > never seen this one anywhere in Twain=E2=80=99s works, which = > didn=E2=80=99t prove much, but that it didn=E2=80=99t sound like him to = > me. I told him I would do a search and try to find out its provenance = > (today=E2=80=99s word of the day du jour!).=20 > > 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.=20 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > John Bird > [log in to unmask] <javascript:;> > -- Terry Ballard Author and Leisure Studies Manager http://www.terryballard.org Author of the book "Google this" http://googlethisforlibraries.com "My memory has a mind of its own."