People Quotes by Mark Twain

Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.

— Mark Twain

The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.

— Mark Twain

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

— Mark Twain

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

— Mark Twain

Never do wrong when people are looking.

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

Sometimes people do get hurt

— Mark Twain

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

— Mark Twain

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

— Mark Twain

Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

— Mark Twain

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

— Mark Twain

“Well, let her—she should see that he could be as indifferent as some other people.”

— Mark Twain

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

— Mark Twain

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

— Mark Twain

the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

— Mark Twain

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

— Mark Twain

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

— Mark Twain

History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must…

— Mark Twain

You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and…

— 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

I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked…

— Mark Twain

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar…

— Mark Twain

We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this…

— Mark Twain

No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to…

— Mark Twain

If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly…

— Mark Twain

All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash.…

— Mark Twain

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a…

— 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

Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other…

— Mark Twain

Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets…

— Mark Twain

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who…

— Mark Twain

You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you…

— Mark Twain

I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as…

— Mark Twain

There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a…

— Mark Twain

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. There is…

— Mark Twain

It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just…

— Mark Twain

The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds…

— Mark Twain

It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort…

— Mark Twain

I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is…

— Mark Twain

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and…

— Mark Twain