Pudd Nhead Wilson Quotes

#1. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

Mark Twain

#2. Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

Mark Twain

#3. Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

Mark Twain

#4. Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.

Walter Isaacson

#5. Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.

Meg Cabot

#6. When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who have gone on to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

Mark Twain

#7. As soon as you're sure you're right, there's no point in your being here.

Neal Stephenson

#8. I wondered how many times in my life I had done something just because I wanted to without weighing the consequences.

Lisa Kleypas

#9. I'd never met anyone like him before. Every rule I'd ever learned, he was breaking; everything I'd been taught to hide away, he announced it out loud.

Abigail Haas