Mark Twain People Quotations [Page 2]

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

Sometimes people do get hurt

Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all.

The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. But I never said nothing, never let on; kept it to myself; it's the best way; then you don't have no quarrels, and don't get into no trouble. If they wanted us to call them kings and dukes, I hadn't no objections, 'long as it would keep peace in the family; and it warn't no use to tell Jim, so I didn't tell him. If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God."

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

All say, how hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live