Trivia: 10/26/12: Standing on a solid rock.

TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE

QUOTE: "If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old."
HINT: (1853-1937), American novelist and newspaper and magazine editor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

RANDOM TIDBITS

The back of the New Hampshire state quarter depicts The Old Man of the Mountain, a natural rock formation that resembled the face of an elderly male and served as the state's emblem. We say "resembled" and "served" because, sadly, the formation collapsed off the side of Cannon Mountain on May 3, 2003.
The Prudential Insurance Company began using the slogan "We have the strength of Gibraltar" back in 1896 and has employed an image of the Rock of Gibraltar as its logo ever since.
The oldest rocks found on the earth's surface are located near the Great Slave Lake in the Northwestern Territories of Canada. Dating methods have estimated the age of some of the zircon crystals at between four and 4.4 billion years.
Like many legends of early America, Plymouth Rock is very likely just that - a legend. The first written record of the stone as the spot where passengers stepped off the Mayflower was published more than a century afterward.
Ireland's famous Blarney Stone, said to bring "eloquence" to anyone who kisses it, has attracted millions of visitors from around the world. Unconfirmed reports reveal that locals have long entered Blarney Castle after hours to "deface" the stone by urinating on it.
Revealing that Americans will buy nearly anything, for the 1975 holiday season, Gary Dahl packaged small, tumbled stones in boxes with an accompanying training manual and offered them as "pet rocks" for $3.95 each. By the time Christmas arrived, he had sold over one million of them.
QUOTE: "If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old."
ANSWER: Edgar Watson Howe.