--- title: "17 Natural Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "17 Natural quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Natural sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a1/mark-twain-22_authority_conformity-the-natural-instinct-to-passi_1008742.png" --- > [Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/conformity-the-natural-instinct-to-passively-yield-to-that-vague/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a1/mark-twain-22_authority_conformity-the-natural-instinct-to-passi_1008742.png) > [We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/we-take-a-natural-interest-in-novelties-but-it-is-against-nature-to/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/814/mark-twain-22_familiar_we-take-a-natural-interest-in-novelties_350193.png) > [Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/barring-that-natural-expression-of-villainy-which-we-all-have-the-man/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca8/mark-twain-22_appearance_barring-that-natural-expression-of-villa_41710.png) > [Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/children-are-natural-mimics-who-act-like-their-parents-despite-every/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d1/mark-twain-22_being-polite_children-are-natural-mimics-who-act-like_1109777.png) > [A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-human-being-has-a-natural-desire-to-have-more-of-a-good-thing-than/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb5/mark-twain-22_desire_a-human-being-has-a-natural-desire-to-ha_2860318.png) > [I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wanted—otherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-am-as-prompt-as-a-clock-if-i-only-know-the-day-a-thing-is-wanted/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c0/mark-twain-22_clock_i-am-as-prompt-as-a-clock-if-i-only-know_2843012.png) > [Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/who-would-find-out-that-i-am-a-natural-fool-if-i-kept-always-cool-and/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/656/mark-twain-22_fool_who-would-find-out-that-i-am-a-natural-f_2388634.png) > [I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-was-an-arden-hayes-man-but-that-was-natural-for-i-was-pretty-young/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/104/mark-twain-22_cases_i-was-an-arden-hayes-man-but-that-was-na_3036386.png) > [ “To me \[Edgar Allan Poe's\] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's \[sic\]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/to-me-edgar-allan-poe-s-prose-is-unreadable-like-jane-austin-s-sic-no/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/370/mark-twain-22_allan-poe_to-me-edgar-allan-poe-s-prose-is-unreada_175729.png) > [Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/darwin-abolished-special-creations-contributed-the-origin-of-species/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/828/mark-twain-22_creation_darwin-abolished-special-creations-contr_2507866.jpg) > [The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-observance-of-thanksgiving-day-as-a-function-has-become-general/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35e/mark-twain-22_being-thankful_the-observance-of-thanksgiving-day-as-a_1516510.png) > [By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/by-trampling-upon-the-helpless-abroad-with-unchecked-surveillance/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf2/mark-twain-22_america_by-trampling-upon-the-helpless-abroad-wi_1269843.png) > [A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-man-cannot-be-comfortable-without-his-own-approval-there-is-nothing/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/851/mark-twain-22_achieve_a-man-cannot-be-comfortable-without-his_3040854.jpg) > [The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-koran-does-not-permit-mohammedans-to-drink-their-natural/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a35/mark-twain-22_amount_the-koran-does-not-permit-mohammedans-to_1306405.png) > [If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them --…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-you-invent-two-or-three-people-and-turn-them-loose-in-your/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b2/mark-twain-22_book_if-you-invent-two-or-three-people-and-tu_931618.png) > [This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/this-is-a-christian-country-why-so-is-hell-inasmuch-as-strait-is-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c95/mark-twain-22_america_this-is-a-christian-country-why-so-is-he_856784.png) > [Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/word-it-as-softly-as-you-please-the-spirit-of-patriotism-is-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbe/mark-twain-22_boundaries_word-it-as-softly-as-you-please-the-spir_561422.png) ## Other authors on Natural ## More by Mark Twain > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/sing-like-no-one-s-listening-love-like-you-ve-never-been-hurt-dance/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-you-had-made-the-acquiring-of-ignorance-the-study-of-your-life-you/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-creator-sat-upon-the-throne-thinking-behind-him-stretched-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-s-easy-to-quit-smoking-i-ve-done-it-hundreds-of-times/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-never-wrong-to-do-the-right-thing/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-man-accustomed-to-american-food-and-american-domestic-cookery-would/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-nothing-training-can-t-cannot-do-nothing-is-above-its-reach/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-never-write-metropolis-for-seven-cents-because-i-can-get-the-same/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-higher-animals-get-their-teeth-without-pain-or-inconvenience-man/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/as-far-as-i-can-see-italy-for-fifteen-hundred-years-has-turned-all/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/begin-with-the-determination-to-succeed-and-the-work-is-half-done/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/many-public-school-children-seem-to-know-only-two-dates-1492-and-4th/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-we-could-imagine-such-a-man-that-is-a-man-who-could-invent-the-fly/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/you-perceive-now-that-these-things-are-all-impossible-except-in-a/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/lord-save-us-all-from-a-hope-tree-that-has-lost-the-faculty-of/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/natural/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "17 Natural Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": 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