Josh Billings Quotes

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

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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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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

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There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

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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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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

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Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

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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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Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

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Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

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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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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

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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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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

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Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

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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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