God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat. — 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
Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a… — 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
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no… — 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
If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“spiritual wants and instincts are as various in the human family as are physical appetites, complexions, and features, and a man is only at his best, morally, when he is equipped with the religious garment whose color and shape and size most nicely accommodate themselves to the spiritual complexion, angularities, and stature of the individual who wears it; and, besides,… — Mark Twain Copy Share
As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions of all the gods but it has never suspected it once. There is nothing prettier than its naive and complacent appreciation of itself. It comes out frankly and proclaims without bashfulness or any sign of… — Mark Twain Copy Share
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 Image
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 Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like a distant sun. At His feet stood three colossal… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to the building up of a vast array of wonderful church edifices, and starving half her citizens to accomplish it. She is today one vast museum of magnificence and misery. All the churches in an ordinary American… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Image
