Men Quotes by Mark Twain

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

— Mark Twain

The average man don't like trouble and danger.

— Mark Twain

…honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

— Mark Twain

To be busy is man's only happiness.

— Mark Twain

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

— Mark Twain

A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

— Mark Twain

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

— Mark Twain

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

— Mark Twain

Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.

— Mark Twain

A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

— Mark Twain

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

— Mark Twain

Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

— 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

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.

— Mark Twain

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

— Mark Twain

The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

— Mark Twain

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds…

— Mark Twain

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of…

— Mark Twain

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship…

— Mark Twain

You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I…

— Mark Twain

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read…

— Mark Twain

Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then.…

— Mark Twain

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions…

— Mark Twain

Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also…

— Mark Twain

I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions…

— Mark Twain

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of…

— Mark Twain

The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so…

— 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

So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad,…

— Mark Twain

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the…

— Mark Twain

“Man is a marvelous curiosity … he thinks he is the Creator’s pet … he even believes the Creator loves him; has…

— Mark Twain

there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on…

— Mark Twain

He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of…

— Mark Twain

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to…

— Mark Twain

There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s…

— 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

I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor…

— Mark Twain

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven…

— Mark Twain

This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had…

— Mark Twain

The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for…

— Mark Twain