All MARK TWAIN Quotes about “Dogs”

“The more I know people, the more I love my dog.”
“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.”
“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 the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.”
“the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.”
“He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.”
“It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.”
“My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.”
“There are no wild animals until man makes them so.”
“When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.”
“Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.”
“I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.”
“The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.”

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