Josh Billings quotes
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“Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”
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“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.”
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“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”
-- Josh BillingsSource : Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.304
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“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”
-- Josh BillingsSource : Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”
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“Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.”
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“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”
-- Josh Billings#Communication Quotes #Parenting Quotes #Insperational Quotes
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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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“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.”
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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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“There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.”
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“We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.”
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“Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.”
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“Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.”
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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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“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”
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“Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.”
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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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“There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.”
-- Josh BillingsSource : "Laura Poitras Talks CITIZENFOUR, Her First Impression of Edward Snowden, Her Commitment to Fearless Adversarial Journalism and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 26, 2014.
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“Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.”
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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.”
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“Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.”
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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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“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.”
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“There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.”
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“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”
-- Josh BillingsSource : "Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia". Book by Jacob Morton Braude (p. 601), 1962.
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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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“Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.”
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“Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.”
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“Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.”
-- Josh Billings#Inspirational Quotes #Wrestling Quotes #Common Sense Quotes
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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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“Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.”
-- Josh BillingsSource : Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”
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“Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.”
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“Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.”
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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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“There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.”
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“It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.”
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“It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.”
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“Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.”
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“Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.”
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“Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.”
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“Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.”
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“Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.”
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“In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.”
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“Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.”
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“Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite”
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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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“Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.”
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“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.”
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“A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.”
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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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“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”
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“Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.”
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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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“The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.”
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“As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.”
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“If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.”
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“A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.”
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“The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.”
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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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“The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.”
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“There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.”
-- Josh BillingsSource : Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”
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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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“The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.”
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“Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.”
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“The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.”
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“Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has....”
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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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“It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.”
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“It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.”
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“When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.”
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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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“Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.”
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“Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.”
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“The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.”
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“It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.”
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“Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.”
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“I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.”
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“I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.”
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“A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.”
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“A wise man never enjoys himself so much, nor a fool so little, as when alone.”
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“It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.”
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“Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.”
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“People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.”
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“Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject”
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“Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.”
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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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“There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.”
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“Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.”
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“Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.”
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“What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.”
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“There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?”
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“Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.”
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“A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.”
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“Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.”
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