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It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly. Josh Billings Adages |
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| "As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." Josh Billings |
| "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." Josh Billings |
| "Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute." Josh Billings Sayings |
| A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. Josh Billings |
| A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. Josh Billings Adages |
| A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable. Josh Billings Adages |
| A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates Josh Billings Remarks |
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| A sekret ceases to be a sekret if it iz once confided - it iz like a dollar bill, once broken, it iz never a dollar again Josh Billings Sayings |
| About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. Josh Billings Remarks |
| Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. Josh Billings |
| Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. Josh Billings Quotations |
| Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. Josh Billings |
| After enlightenment, the laundry. Josh Billings |
| As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. Josh Billings Sayings |
| As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. Josh Billings |
| Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. Josh Billings Quotes |
| Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. Josh Billings |
| Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at. Josh Billings |
| Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. Josh Billings |
| Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. Josh Billings |
| Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. Josh Billings |
| Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to Josh Billings |
| Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. Josh Billings Quotes |
| Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been Josh Billings |
| Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones. Josh Billings |
| Flattery is like perfume water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. Josh Billings Quotations |
| Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. Josh Billings Quotations |
| Health is like munny, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. Josh Billings |
| History repeats itself because nobody listens. Josh Billings Remarks |
| 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 Quotations |
| I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me. Josh Billings |
| I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me. Josh Billings |
| I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, but the wheel that does the squeaking is the one that gets the grease Josh Billings Quotes |
| I have lived in the world just long enough to look carefully the second time into those things that I am most certain of the first time. Josh Billings |
| I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time. Josh Billings |
| I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most concerned of the first time. Josh Billings Remarks |
| I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway. Josh Billings Adages |
| I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. Josh Billings Quotes |
| I've never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else Josh Billings Adages |
| If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. Josh Billings |
| If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety. Josh Billings |
| If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety. Josh Billings Sayings |
| 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. Josh Billings Quotations |
| It ain't what folks know that's the problem, it's what they know that ain't so. Josh Billings Quotes |
| It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit. Josh Billings Quotes |
| 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. Josh Billings Remarks |
| It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us, we can dodge an elephant, but we can't a fly Josh Billings |
| It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly. Josh Billings |
| 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. Josh Billings |
| It isn't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich. Josh Billings Quotes |
| 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. Josh Billings Popular Quotes |
| It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. Josh Billings |
| Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Josh Billings |
| Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. Josh Billings Popular Quotes |
| Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves. Josh Billings Quotes |
| Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot. Josh Billings |
| Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. Josh Billings |
| Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. Josh Billings Popular Quotes |
| Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. Josh Billings Remarks |
| Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners. Josh Billings |
| Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. Josh Billings Remarks |
| Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since. 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 everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one. Josh Billings |
| Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one. Josh Billings |
| Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. Josh Billings Quotations |
| Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. Josh Billings |
| Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it Josh Billings |
| Never teach your child to be cunning for you may be certain that you will be one of the first victims of his shrewdness Josh Billings |
| Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. Josh Billings Popular Quotes |
| 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 Josh Billings Sayings |
| Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer. Josh Billings Remarks |
| One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can. Josh Billings Sayings |
| One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. Josh Billings |
| One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. Josh Billings Adages |
| Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing. Josh Billings |
| Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream. Josh Billings |
| Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. Josh Billings Quotes |
| Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Josh Billings Popular Quotes |
| Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject Josh Billings Quotations |
| Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner. Josh Billings Quotes |
| Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. Josh Billings Quotations |
| The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. Josh Billings Popular Quotes |
| The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way Josh Billings |
| The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do. Josh Billings Quotes |
| The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. Josh Billings Popular Quotes |
| The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travelers pay the expense of it. Josh Billings Popular Quotes |
| The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it. Josh Billings Quotations |
| The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so Josh Billings Popular Quotes |
| The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so. Josh Billings |
| The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so. Josh Billings Sayings |
| The wicked often work harder to go to hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. Josh Billings |
| There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. Josh Billings |
| There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can't tell the truth without lying. Josh Billings Sayings |
| 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 Billings |
| 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 Billings Sayings |
| There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree Josh Billings |
| There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. Josh Billings Popular Quotes |
| There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. Josh Billings Sayings |
| There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. Josh Billings Popular Quotes |
| There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. Josh Billings Quotations |
| Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and four times he who gets his fist in fust Josh Billings |
| Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. Josh Billings Popular Quotes |
| To bring up a child in the way he should go - travel that way yourself. Josh Billings Remarks |
| To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Josh Billings Quotes |
| We hate those who will not take our advice and despise those who do Josh Billings Popular Quotes |
| We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. Josh Billings Adages |
| When a man comes to me for advice I find out the kind of advice he wants - and I give it to him Josh Billings |
| When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. Josh Billings |
| When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. Josh Billings |
| Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something. Josh Billings |
