Josh Billings's Quotes

Josh Billings's Quotes 43

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

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

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess and yet all the honesty in...

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As scarce as truth is the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the...

To bring up a child in the way he should go travel that way yourself once in...

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

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

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

I haven't got as much money as some folks but I've got as much impudence as...

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Time is like money the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money weighs less on the moral...

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

Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope.

Wisdom has never made a bigot but learning has.

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

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets the more he craves.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at...

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to...

A good way I know to find happiness is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it you will find it as the old...

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

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

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