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Josh Billings Quotes

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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
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Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
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There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
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When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
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There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
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10
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
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Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
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You’d better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain’t so.
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
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Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
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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.
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
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There are two kinds of fools: those who can’t change their opinions and those who won‘t.
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The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying.
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It’s not only the most difficult thing to know one’s self, but the most inconvenient.
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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.
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn’t be any fun living in it, or profit.
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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
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Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
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There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
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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.
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35
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
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36
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying.
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
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40
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain’t so wicked as their neighbors.
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
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Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
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The trouble with people is not that they don’t know but that they know so much that ain’t so.
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44
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
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45
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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46
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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47
Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
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48
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.
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49
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.
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50
Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.
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51
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.
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Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
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Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.
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55
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
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The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.
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57
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
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58
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
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There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.
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Life is short, but it’s long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
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63
Don’t ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
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The trouble with people is not that they don’t know but that they know so much that ain’t so.
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
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Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
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Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
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It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
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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.
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Don’t ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can’t suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
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81
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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82
There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.
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83
Every man has his follies – and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain’t got.
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About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
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88
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
Josh Billings
89
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
90
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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92
Life is short, but it’s long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
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93
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings
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Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
Josh Billings
95
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings
96
Every man has his follies – and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
Josh Billings
97
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
98
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.
Josh Billings
99
You’d better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain’t so.
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100
Woman‘s influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
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