Mark Twain Quotes

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

It may be called the master passion, the hunger for self-approval.

A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Anti-Semitism… is the swollen envy of pygmy minds – meanness, injustice.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I didn’t know.

I could have made a neat retort but didn’t, for I was flurried and didn’t think of it till I was downstairs.

It was human – quite distinctly human. It is not pleasant to hear you libel the higher animals by attributing to them dispositions which they are free from, and which are found nowhere but the human heart. None of the higher animals is tainted with the disease called the Moral Sense. Purify your language Seppi; […]

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. The fact that man knows right from wrong […]