It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain. – Mark Twain
Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all. – Mark Twain

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain. – Mark Twain
Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all. – Mark Twain
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? – Mark Twain
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. – Mark Twain
It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. – Muriel Spark, Territorial Rights, 1979