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Creatures Quotes by Mark Twain
- Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere…
- As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not…
- Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
- There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the…
- I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and…
- Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be…
- Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life…
- The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves…
- It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor;…
- Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made…
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it…
- If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His…
More Creatures Quotes
- All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. — J. J. Abrams
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar