Quote

The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

Mark Twain

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
Aphorist
Author
Autobiographer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Teacher
Florida
Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
Always
Breathing
Would
Hungry
Hunger
Friendless
Luck
Meanest
Creatures
Allegory
Poor
Fleas
Living
Despise
Even
Desert

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.
Mark Twain
Image
July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so
Mark Twain
Image
I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.
Mark Twain
Image
Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
Mark Twain
Image
Some things you can't find out but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.
Mark Twain
Image
When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.
Mark Twain
Image
Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.
Mark Twain
Image
If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.
Mark Twain
Image
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
Mark Twain
Image
France has usually been governed by prostitutes
Mark Twain
Image
Never miss an opportunity to shut up.
Mark Twain
Image
Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows
Mark Twain
Image
There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.
Mark Twain
Image
How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.
Mark Twain
Image
It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.
Mark Twain
Image
All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.
Mark Twain
Image
Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.
Mark Twain
Image
And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!
Mark Twain
Image
History doesn't repeat itself it rhymes.
Mark Twain
Image
Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.
Mark Twain