"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us."
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Quotes by 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"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."
Josh Billings"There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply."
Josh Billings"The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear."
Josh Billings"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"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."
Josh Billings"There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory."
Josh Billings"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together."
Josh Billings"Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got."
Josh Billings"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed."
Josh Billings"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
Josh Billings"Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place."
Josh Billings"There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing."
Josh Billings"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense."
Josh Billings"Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."
Josh Billings"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."
Josh Billings"Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it."
Josh Billings"Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail."
Josh Billings"Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors."
Josh Billings"There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying."
Josh Billings"Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe."
Josh Billings"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"The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease."
Josh Billings"Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got."
Josh Billings"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."
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