"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 crossed with the cat it would i...












If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

More Mark Twain quotes
"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
"While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.
"That's the way with a cat, you know -- any cat; they don't give a damn for discipline. And they can't help it, they're made so. But it ain't really in...
"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
"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 (man) is the most detestable. Of t...
"It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.
"Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Ani...
"A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
"Then the cow asked:"What is a mirror?""It is a hole in the wall," said the cat. "You look in it, and there you see the picture, and it is so dainty an...
"Men have nothing in common with me--there is no point of contact; they have foolish little feelings and foolish little vanities and impertinences and ...
"A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to gro...