Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. — 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
“A dog is der Hund the dog; a women is die Frau the wom[an]; a horse is das Pferd, the horse; now… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at… — 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
Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag. — 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
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 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
My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the… — 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
I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog. — 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
