Mark Twain Quotes About Mankind

• What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

  Mark Twain

  Father, Men, Monkeys

  Mark Twain (1940). “Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events”, Harper & Brothers

• Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

  Mark Twain

  Integrity, Animal, Men

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 27

• Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Half, Morality

• Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Men, Envy

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.173, 谷月社

• The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Humility, Race

  Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.424, Univ of California Press

• Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, Thinking, Race

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.504, Courier Corporation

• Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

  Mark Twain

  Good Life, Inspiration, Humor

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.188, Courier Corporation

• Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

  Mark Twain

  Literature, Improvement, Enough

  Mark Twain (1969). “Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909”, p.386, Univ of California Press

• The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

  Mark Twain

  Race, Coward, Human Condition

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.130, Univ of California Press

• It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

  Mark Twain

  Race, Body, Enough

  Mark Twain (2008). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.142, Penguin

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