--- title: "14 Creatures Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "14 Creatures quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Creatures sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc3/mark-twain-22_animal_man-is-the-only-creature-who-has-a-nasty_2077481.png" --- > [Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/man-is-the-only-creature-who-has-a-nasty-mind/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc3/mark-twain-22_animal_man-is-the-only-creature-who-has-a-nasty_2077481.png) > [Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/human-beings-are-the-only-creatures-who-blush-or-who-need-to/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e77/mark-twain-22_animal_human-beings-are-the-only-creatures-who_2662688.png) > [Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/of-all-god-s-creatures-there-is-only-one-that-cannot-be-made-slave-of/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90f/mark-twain-22_cat_of-all-god-s-creatures-there-is-only-one_1990170.png) > [If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-god-is-what-people-say-there-can-be-no-one-in-the-universe-so/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/800/mark-twain-22_creatures_if-god-is-what-people-say-there-can-be-n_2247935.png) > [Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/heaven-is-by-favor-if-it-were-by-merit-your-dog-would-go-in-and-you/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/755/mark-twain-22_creature_heaven-is-by-favor-if-it-were-by-merit-y_1805536.jpg) > [The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-cayote-is-a-living-breathing-allegory-of-want-he-is-always-hungry/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62d/mark-twain-22_allegory_the-cayote-is-a-living-breathing-allegor_1216783.png) > [Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/authorship-is-not-a-trade-it-is-an-inspiration-authorship-does-not/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb2/mark-twain-22_authorship_authorship-is-not-a-trade-it-is-an-inspi_323707.png) > [The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-fact-that-man-knows-right-from-wrong-proves-his-intellectual/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4c/mark-twain-22_animal_the-fact-that-man-knows-right-from-wrong_1831520.jpg) > [Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/courage-is-resistance-to-fear-mastery-of-fear-not-absence-of-fear/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/598/mark-twain-22_absence_courage-is-resistance-to-fear-mastery-of_1013767.jpg) > [As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/as-for-the-dinosaur-but-noah-s-conscience-was-easy-it-was-not-named/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6b/mark-twain-22_america_as-for-the-dinosaur-but-noah-s-conscienc_2874817.jpg) > [There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-nothing-in-either-savage-or-civilized-history-that-is-more/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c99/mark-twain-22_baby_there-is-nothing-in-either-savage-or-civ_307182.jpg) > [I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-cannot-see-the-short-white-curls-upon-the-forehead-of-an-ox-but/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43d/mark-twain-22_aim_i-cannot-see-the-short-white-curls-upon_1119937.jpg) > [It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-just-like-man-s-vanity-and-impertinence-to-call-an-animal-dumb/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/693/mark-twain-22_animal_it-is-just-like-man-s-vanity-and-imperti_1453605.jpg) > [Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/solomon-who-was-one-of-the-deity-s-favorites-had-a-copulation-cabinet/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57c/mark-twain-22_cabinets_solomon-who-was-one-of-the-deity-s-favor_1627840.jpg) ## Other authors on Creatures ## 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/creatures/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "14 Creatures Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/man-is-the-only-creature-who-has-a-nasty-mind/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc3/mark-twain-22_animal_man-is-the-only-creature-who-has-a-nasty_2077481.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc3/mark-twain-22_animal_man-is-the-only-creature-who-has-a-nasty_2077481.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc3/mark-twain-22_animal_man-is-the-only-creature-who-has-a-nasty_2077481.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/human-beings-are-the-only-creatures-who-blush-or-who-need-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e77/mark-twain-22_animal_human-beings-are-the-only-creatures-who_2662688.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e77/mark-twain-22_animal_human-beings-are-the-only-creatures-who_2662688.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e77/mark-twain-22_animal_human-beings-are-the-only-creatures-who_2662688.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. 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The official report deals only in masses, all the virgins, all the men, all the babies. all ´creatures that breathe,´ all houses. all cities. It gives you just one vast picture ...as far as the eye can reach, of charred ruins and storm-swept desolation... 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W.H. Davies I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the \"lower animals\" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. 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