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“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.”
— Josh Billings
“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”
— Josh Billings
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.”
— Josh Billings
“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”
— Josh Billings
“There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.”
— Josh Billings
“There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.”
— Josh Billings
“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”
— Josh Billings
“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”
— Josh Billings
“There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.”
— 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
“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.”
— Josh Billings
“The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.”
— Josh Billings
“The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.”
— Josh Billings
“Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.”
— Josh Billings
“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”
— Josh Billings
“Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.”
— 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
“Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.”
— Josh Billings
“As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.”
— Josh Billings
“Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.”
— Josh Billings
“Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.”
— Josh Billings
“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.”
— 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
“Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.”
— Josh Billings
“There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.”
— Josh Billings
“There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.”
— Josh Billings
“Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.”
— Josh Billings
“Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.”
— 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
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