“Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.”
Mark Twain book Following the Equator
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XXVII
Following the Equator (1897)
Mark Twain: Man
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Autobiographical Dictation (1906).
Variant: The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey.
In revised edition, Vol. I, "Friday, January 19, 1906, About Dueling.", p. 298, The Autobiography of Mark Twain, 1959, Charles Neider, Harper & Row
Mark Twain's Autobiography (1924)
“Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.”
Often attributed to Twain online, but unsourced. Alternate source: "The whole principle [of censorship] is wrong. It's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't have steak." — Robert Heinlein, The Man Who Sold the Moon, 1951, p. 188.
Misattributed
“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”
Mark Twain and I by Opie Read
Variant: Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time.
“Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.”
Source: 381 https://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/ItalTravLit/id/22790<br>Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Mark Twain / Quotes / Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)
“The average man don't like trouble and danger.”
Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn