Mark Twain Quotes About Hunting

• when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.

  Mark Twain

  Hunting, Names, Giving

  Mark Twain (2011). “No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger”, p.130, Univ of California Press

• I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.

  Mark Twain

  Hunting, Long, Waiting

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.18, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

• We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Men

• For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

  Mark Twain

  Hunting, Clothes, Males

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5091, Delphi Classics

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