Mark Twain Quotes, Photography Quotes, Silly Quotes

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

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You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.

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True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

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One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

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Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

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Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

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it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

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If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.

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Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

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In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

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I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

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Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.

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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

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I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

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No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

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Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

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It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

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