Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and…

Mark Twain
1626 citations
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption. ✨ Mark Twain (2015). Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, p.254, Univ of California Press
Humanity
31

More Author Quotes

If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.
To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.
Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself. ✨ Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). The Bible According to M … ▶
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. ✨ Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 4, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar (1894)
All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.425, Courier Corporation

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes