Pudd'nhead 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. Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done.

Ray Davies

#5. Re: Full Disclosure
Sharing with parents all the ways we tricked them as a child is no more amusing to them when we are in our fifties than it would have been had they caught us in the act.

Ron Brackin

#6. It simply lies beyond the capacity of the human mind. And if the Bible is correct, then what created our universe, God, was and is metaphysical.

Gerald Schroeder

#7. 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

#8. Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#9. Your marriage," Jake said, almost impatiently. "It's like the grapes. Just a paint job."
He went straight to bed.

Charlie Carillo

#10. Time is the most valuable commodity we have to offer the world. Don't be afraid to share.

Mark W. Boyer

#11. I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.

George Gordon Byron

#12. In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#13. Do you think I envy him? At least I was reared without tenderness and without expectation of it. During all that time, you were breeding a hothouse love based on deception.

Dorothy Dunnett

#14. Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore. - HINDU PROVERB

Cynthia Hand

#15. This is the culmination of all my hopes, Gabriel. Julia reached out to him and he strained to catch her pinky finger with his own. This is my happy ending.

Sylvain Reynard

#16. There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

Margaret Oliphant