Mark Twain Cow Quotations

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! -- incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.