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Josh Billings Quotes
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I’ve never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary (Josh Billings Quotes)
A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it (Josh Billings Quotes)
Politeness iz often wasted, but it iz a good and cheap mistake tew make (Josh Billings Quotes)
Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so (Josh Billings Quotes)
Don’t mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs (Josh Billings Quotes)
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there (Josh Billings Quotes)
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it (Josh Billings Quotes)
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug (Josh Billings Quotes)
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way (Josh Billings Quotes)
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go (Josh Billings Quotes)
It ain’t no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is (Josh Billings Quotes)
Life is short, but it’s long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined (Josh Billings Quotes)
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 (Josh Billings Quotes)
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail (Josh Billings Quotes)
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can (Josh Billings Quotes)
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying (Josh Billings Quotes)
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can’t suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb (Josh Billings Quotes)
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for (Josh Billings Quotes)
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better (Josh Billings Quotes)
Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail (Josh Billings Quotes)
A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome (Josh Billings Quotes)
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it (Josh Billings Quotes)
It’s not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich (Josh Billings Quotes)
You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so (Josh Billings Quotes)
I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it (Josh Billings Quotes)
A wise man never enjoys himself so much, nor a fool so little, as when alone (Josh Billings Quotes)
A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains (Josh Billings Quotes)
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot (Josh Billings Quotes)
I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so (Josh Billings Quotes)
Habits are like the wrinkles on a man’s brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other (Josh Billings Quotes)