Nature of man Quotes by Mark Twain

I am only human, although I regret it.

— Mark Twain

There is no accounting for human beings.

— Mark Twain

To eat is human, to digest, divine

— Mark Twain

Everything human is pathetic

— Mark Twain

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

— Mark Twain

“Human nature is all alike.”

— Mark Twain

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

— Mark Twain

What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

— Mark Twain

The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

— Mark Twain

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

— Mark Twain

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

— Mark Twain

“Human nature appears to be just the same, all over the world”

— Mark Twain

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

— Mark Twain

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

— Mark Twain

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

— Mark Twain

I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that…

— Mark Twain

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

“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a…

— 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

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to…

— Mark Twain

The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the…

— Mark Twain

The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we…

— Mark Twain

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

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

If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I…

— Mark Twain

As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of…

— Mark Twain

“spiritual wants and instincts are as various in the human family as are physical appetites, complexions, and features, and a man is…

— Mark Twain