Josh Billings
Quotations
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“Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain’t got.” -Josh Billings
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“Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.” -Josh Billings
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“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.” -Josh Billings
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“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.” -Josh Billings
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“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.” -Josh Billings
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“The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.” -Josh Billings
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“Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain’t so wicked as their neighbors.” -Josh Billings
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“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.” -Josh Billings
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“There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.” -Josh Billings
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“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.” -Josh Billings
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“Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.” -Josh Billings
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“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.” -Josh Billings
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“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.” -Josh Billings
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“Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.” -Josh Billings
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“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” -Josh Billings
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“Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.” -Josh Billings
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“Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.” -Josh Billings
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“About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.” -Josh Billings
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“I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.” -Josh Billings
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“There’s a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.” -Josh Billings
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“A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.” -Josh Billings
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“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” -Josh Billings
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“It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.” -Josh Billings
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“There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.” -Josh Billings
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“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.” -Josh Billings
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“There’s a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.” -Josh Billings
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“The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.” -Josh Billings
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“As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.” -Josh Billings
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“If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.” -Josh Billings
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“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.” -Josh Billings
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“There are two kinds of fools: those who can’t change their opinions and those who won’t.” -Josh Billings
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“One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.” -Josh Billings
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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. – Josh Billings
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