--- title: "4 Hunting Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "4 Hunting quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Hunting sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/399/mark-twain-22_comfort_when-we-badly-want-a-thing-we-go-to-hunt_410150.png" --- > [when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/when-we-badly-want-a-thing-we-go-to-hunting-for-good-and-righteous/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/399/mark-twain-22_comfort_when-we-badly-want-a-thing-we-go-to-hunt_410150.png) > [For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/for-a-male-person-bric-a-brac-hunting-is-about-as-robust-a-business/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/092/mark-twain-22_brics_for-a-male-person-bric-a-brac-hunting-is_1002327.png) > [We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/we-are-always-hearing-of-people-who-are-around-seeking-after-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb3/mark-twain-22_doubt_we-are-always-hearing-of-people-who-are_1740826.jpg) > [I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-pledged-myself-to-smoke-but-one-cigar-a-day-i-kept-the-cigar/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a46/mark-twain-22_bedtime_i-pledged-myself-to-smoke-but-one-cigar_2638896.png) ## Other authors on Hunting - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-ted-nugent-89250.jpg) Ted Nugent 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/ted-nugent/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-steven-rinella-87530.jpg) Steven Rinella 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/steven-rinella/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-fred-bear-36012.jpg) Fred Bear 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/fred-bear/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-jose-ortega-y-gasset-53204.jpg) Jose Ortega y Gasset 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/jose-ortega-y-gasset/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-suzanne-collins-88237.jpg) Suzanne Collins 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/suzanne-collins/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-erin-hunter-33731.jpg) Erin Hunter 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/erin-hunter/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-wayne-pacelle-94658.jpg) Wayne Pacelle 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/wayne-pacelle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-aldo-leopold-10632.jpg) Aldo Leopold 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/aldo-leopold/) ## 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/hunting/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "4 Hunting Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/when-we-badly-want-a-thing-we-go-to-hunting-for-good-and-righteous/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/399/mark-twain-22_comfort_when-we-badly-want-a-thing-we-go-to-hunt_410150.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/399/mark-twain-22_comfort_when-we-badly-want-a-thing-we-go-to-hunt_410150.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/399/mark-twain-22_comfort_when-we-badly-want-a-thing-we-go-to-hunt_410150.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine…” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/for-a-male-person-bric-a-brac-hunting-is-about-as-robust-a-business/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/092/mark-twain-22_brics_for-a-male-person-bric-a-brac-hunting-is_1002327.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/092/mark-twain-22_brics_for-a-male-person-bric-a-brac-hunting-is_1002327.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/092/mark-twain-22_brics_for-a-male-person-bric-a-brac-hunting-is_1002327.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. 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