A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny… — 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
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read… — 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
