The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain

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

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Mark Twain

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark Twain

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

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Mark Twain

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Mark Twain

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Mark Twain

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Mark Twain

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Mark Twain

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln