Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it. — 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
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races. — 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
As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in… — 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
Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do - and didn't save many, anyway. But if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to… — 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
A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom. Well, I can tell you it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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