Mark Twain

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

Mark Twain

How slow and still the time did drag along.

Mark Twain

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

Mark Twain

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

Mark Twain

Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.

Mark Twain

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

Mark Twain

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

Mark Twain

Humorists of the ‘mere’ sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

Mark Twain

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

Mark Twain

I am a great & sublime fool. But then I am God’s fool, & all His works must be contemplated with respect.

Mark Twain