My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter... — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and… — Mark Twain Copy Share
You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share
