Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson Quotes

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.

To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave, and salable as such.