I reckon the widow or the parson or somebody prayed that this bread would find me, and here it have gone and done it. So there ain't no doubt but there is something in that thing. That is, there's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.
("The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn")
More Quotes from Mark Twain:
The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.Mark Twain
Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it, that is, married women.
Mark Twain
We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things and yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy for us
Mark Twain
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain
They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
Mark Twain
There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
Mark Twain
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: parsonOne half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet.
Gene Tunney
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
J. P. Morgan
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
Eric Hoffer