Quotes from Mark Twain

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

Humor is man's greatest blessing.

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.

You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

If all men were rich, all men would be poor.