Mark Twain Quotes

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

I simply can’t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

Ignorant people think it’s the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it’s the sickening grammar they use.

By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a “noble” animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward – you will […]

Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

That’s the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don’t care, individuals do.

All crimes should be punished with humiliations- public exposure in ridiculous and grotesque situations- and never in any other way. Death makes a hero of the villian, and he is envied by some spectators and imitators.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

The plan of the newspaper is good and wise; when you can’t get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

It’s so hard to find men of a so high type of morals that they’ll stay bought.