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 cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Some people scorn a cat and think it not an essential; but the Clemens tribe are not of these.” — 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
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
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
The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will… — 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
The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit… — 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
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
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
“a square, flat-roofed hovel, neatly frescoed, with its wall-tops gallantly bastioned and turreted with dried camel-refuse, gives to a landscape a feature… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Notwithstanding all this furniture, there was still room to turn around in, but not to swing a cat in, at least with… — 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
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
“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
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. — 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
“If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.” — 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
When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction. — 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
“If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat” — 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
“Then the cow asked: "What is a mirror?" "It is a hole in the wall," said the cat. "You look in it,… — 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
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
