People Quotes by 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

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

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

— Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

— Mark Twain

There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

— Mark Twain

You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

— Mark Twain

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

— Mark Twain

Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

— Mark Twain

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

— Mark Twain

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to…

— Mark Twain

Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas…

— Mark Twain

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from…

— Mark Twain

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about…

— Mark Twain

I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They…

— Mark Twain

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it,…

— Mark Twain

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined…

— Mark Twain

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I…

— Mark Twain

My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded…

— Mark Twain

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable…

— Mark Twain

All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk…

— Mark Twain

I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the…

— Mark Twain

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet,…

— Mark Twain

I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one…

— Mark Twain

This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the…

— Mark Twain

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only…

— 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

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

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

— Mark Twain

Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking…

— Mark Twain

We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think…

— Mark Twain

If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of…

— Mark Twain

In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we…

— Mark Twain