The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion -… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
