When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in... - Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
"When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers."
More quotes by Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
"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'."
"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"
"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
"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'."
"Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent."