Mark Twain Quotes

There ain't a man livin' who hasn't talked to his dog.

I set my monkey on the log, and ordered him to do the Dog. He wagged his tail and shook his head, and he went and did the Cat instead.

The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.

Sheep are never going to talk to you about cricket.

Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.

There is three different ways that autistic kids will interact with animals.And they also need to make sure that they're not getting too rough with their animals - they need to learn how to pet the dog properly, they can't be pulling its ears and things like that.

He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.

Cats talk to whomever they please.

There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic.

Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.

I do ask myself sometimes, what am I doing writing about animals that talk like we do? But I guess it's okay if it brings across a point.

Why do people shush animals? Theyve never spoken

There's something people find hilarious about dogs surfing and dancing and talking in the movies. I think it's nice for people - I think it's wish fulfillment - to see animals talking.

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason.

I know a lot of animal communicators and I think a lot of them are just good behaviorists because they pick up on a lot little posture things like how the eyes look, the posture of the cat ears, is it tense? They're picking up just a lot of their body cues from the dog, the cat or the horse.

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

I love animals. When I was young, I had two St. Bernards, I still have a dog, I have a lot of cats in my company. My wife always says, "You spend a lot of money on animals. More than even me!"

It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention.

I wanted to talk to the animals like Dr. Dolittle.