"There are some few people I respect..." - Quote by Mark Twain
There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.
More by Mark Twain
“When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”
“You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.”
“When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.”
More on Human Nature
“Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.”
“Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.”
“Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.”
More on Misanthropy
“The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist”
“A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.”
“I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.”