If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Mark Twain · Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, ch. 16

The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is really a large matter—it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

Mark Twain · Letter to George Bainton (October 15, 1888)

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man—the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Mark Twain · Autobiography (1924), vol. I

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

Mark Twain · The source reads: “I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: "All right, then, I'll go to hell."” · Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), ch. 31

More Dog Quotes

You’ve stolen my dog’s affection!

Winston Churchill · S, 1950

Mine enemy’s dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire.

William Shakespeare · [Enter Edgar], IV, vii

The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

Edward Hoagland · The source reads: “In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.” · Dogs, and the Tug of Life (1975)

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“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”

“The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is really a large matter—it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”

“Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man—the biography of the man himself cannot be written.”

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”

“You’ve stolen my dog’s affection!”

“Mine enemy’s dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire.”

“The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.”