Humans Quotes by Mark Twain

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

— Mark Twain

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

— Mark Twain

All human rules are more or less idiotic.

— Mark Twain

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

— Mark Twain

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

— Mark Twain

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

— Mark Twain

I am only human, although I regret it.

— Mark Twain

To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.

— Mark Twain

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

— Mark Twain

All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

— Mark Twain

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

— Mark Twain

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

— Mark Twain

What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

— Mark Twain

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

— Mark Twain

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

— Mark Twain

Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

— Mark Twain

There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not…

— Mark Twain

Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger…

— Mark Twain

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do…

— Mark Twain

Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest,…

— Mark Twain

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to…

— Mark Twain

What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron…

— Mark Twain

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human…

— Mark Twain

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching,…

— Mark Twain

You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away)…

— Mark Twain

I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man…

— Mark Twain

The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we…

— Mark Twain

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and…

— Mark Twain

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity.…

— Mark Twain

We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to…

— Mark Twain

Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking…I knew I should not find in any…

— Mark Twain

A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing,…

— Mark Twain

The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all…

— Mark Twain

It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing…

— Mark Twain

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited…

— Mark Twain

God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them…

— Mark Twain

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being,…

— Mark Twain

As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of…

— Mark Twain

If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of…

— Mark Twain

There is no accounting for human beings.

— Mark Twain