--- title: "7 Dull Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "7 Dull quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Dull sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/693/mark-twain-22_animal_it-is-just-like-man-s-vanity-and-imperti_1453605.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) > [It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-just-like-man-s-vanity-and-impertinence-to-call-an-animal-dumb-2/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c6/mark-twain-22_animal_it-is-just-like-man-s-vanity-and-imperti_2337533.png) > [War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/war-talk-by-men-who-have-been-in-a-war-is-always-interesting-whereas/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d80/mark-twain-22_dull_war-talk-by-men-who-have-been-in-a-war-i_2367650.png) > [Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/is-the-human-race-a-joke-was-it-devised-and-patched-together-in-a/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a8/mark-twain-22_dull_is-the-human-race-a-joke-was-it-devised_2369010.png) > [If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-there-wasn-t-anything-to-find-out-it-would-be-dull-even-trying-to/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a8/mark-twain-22_discovery_if-there-wasn-t-anything-to-find-out-it_2391229.jpg) > [Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/gold-in-its-native-state-is-but-dull-unornamental-stuff-and-only/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84b/mark-twain-22_admiration_gold-in-its-native-state-is-but-dull-uno_2416085.png) > [The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-christian-bible-is-a-drug-store-it-s-contents-have-remained-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/529/mark-twain-22_bible_the-christian-bible-is-a-drug-store-it-s_3220809.png) ## Other authors on Dull ## 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/dull/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "7 Dull Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. 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