--- title: "4 Bull Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "4 Bull quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Bull sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e69/mark-twain-22_bull_prophecy-two-bull-s-eyes-out-of-a-possib_1197708.png" --- > [Prophecy: Two bull's eyes out of a possible million](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/prophecy-two-bull-s-eyes-out-of-a-possible-million/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e69/mark-twain-22_bull_prophecy-two-bull-s-eyes-out-of-a-possib_1197708.png) > [“Ah, Antonio, it IS the noblest sport that ever was. I would give a year of my life to see it. Is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/ah-antonio-it-is-the-noblest-sport-that-ever-was-i-would-give-a-year/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70b/mark-twain-22_bull_ah-antonio-it-is-the-noblest-sport-that_2301495.jpg) > [“Sure enough, it was just as I had dreaded, he started to climb the tree-" "What the Bull?" "Of course- who else?"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/sure-enough-it-was-just-as-i-had-dreaded-he-started-to-climb-the-tree/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cd/mark-twain-22_bull_sure-enough-it-was-just-as-i-had-dreaded_2543151.png) > [...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-person-that-had-took-a-bull-by-the-tail-once-had-learnt-sixty-or/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e2/mark-twain-22_bull_the-person-that-had-took-a-bull-by-the-t_2974596.jpg) ## Other authors on Bull ## More by Mark Twain > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/sing-like-no-one-s-listening-love-like-you-ve-never-been-hurt-dance/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-you-had-made-the-acquiring-of-ignorance-the-study-of-your-life-you/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-creator-sat-upon-the-throne-thinking-behind-him-stretched-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-s-easy-to-quit-smoking-i-ve-done-it-hundreds-of-times/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-never-wrong-to-do-the-right-thing/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-man-accustomed-to-american-food-and-american-domestic-cookery-would/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-nothing-training-can-t-cannot-do-nothing-is-above-its-reach/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-never-write-metropolis-for-seven-cents-because-i-can-get-the-same/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-higher-animals-get-their-teeth-without-pain-or-inconvenience-man/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/as-far-as-i-can-see-italy-for-fifteen-hundred-years-has-turned-all/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/begin-with-the-determination-to-succeed-and-the-work-is-half-done/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/many-public-school-children-seem-to-know-only-two-dates-1492-and-4th/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-we-could-imagine-such-a-man-that-is-a-man-who-could-invent-the-fly/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/you-perceive-now-that-these-things-are-all-impossible-except-in-a/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/lord-save-us-all-from-a-hope-tree-that-has-lost-the-faculty-of/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bull/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "4 Bull Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Prophecy: Two bull's eyes out of a possible million", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/prophecy-two-bull-s-eyes-out-of-a-possible-million/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e69/mark-twain-22_bull_prophecy-two-bull-s-eyes-out-of-a-possib_1197708.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e69/mark-twain-22_bull_prophecy-two-bull-s-eyes-out-of-a-possib_1197708.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e69/mark-twain-22_bull_prophecy-two-bull-s-eyes-out-of-a-possib_1197708.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Prophecy: Two bull's eyes out of a possible million” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Ah, Antonio, it IS the noblest sport that ever was. 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