Mark Twain on Human Nature
Browse 10 quotations attributed to Mark Twain, catalogued under Human Nature, with dates where available.
This page displays 10 quotations attributed to Mark Twain and filed under "Human Nature" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Mark Twain, entry #147: "Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience"
Attributed to Mark Twain, entry #114925: "...why doesn't somebody write a tract on "How to Be a Christian and yet keep your Hands off of Other People's Things."
10 Quotes by Mark Twain on Human Nature
"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience"
"...why doesn't somebody write a tract on "How to Be a Christian and yet keep your Hands off of Other People's Things."
"We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess."
"...when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity."
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
"Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest."
"The glory which is built upon a lie soon becomes a most unpleasant incumbrance. ... How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!"
"God's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn."
"...eaven for climate, Hell for society."
"There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry."