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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
- Josh Billings
#He
#Knowledge
#Like
#Money
#More
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
- Josh Billings
#Go
#Travel
#Up
#Way
#Yourself
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
#Find
#Happiness
#Lost
#Time
#Woman
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
- Josh Billings
#Every
#Funny
#He
#Interesting
#Man
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
- Josh Billings
#Funny
#Great
#Power
#Together
#Words
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
- Josh Billings
#Awake
#Everywhere
#Learning
#Wisdom
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
- Josh Billings
#Always
#Demand
#Excess
#Truth Is
#Truth
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
- Josh Billings
#Bigot
#Learning
#Made
#Never
#Wisdom
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
- Josh Billings
#Enough
#Life Is Short
#Life
#Long
#Man
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
- Josh Billings
#Conscience
#Mistakes
#Never
#Reason
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
- Josh Billings
#Got
#Lost
#Men
#Mourn
#Women
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
- Josh Billings
#Gets
#Grease
#Loudest
#Wheel
#Wisdom
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
#Bread
#Honesty
#Wealth
#Wisdom
#World
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
- Josh Billings
#God
#Neighbors
#People
#Thankful
#Wicked
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
- Josh Billings
#God
#Help
#Love
#Marriage
#Smile
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
- Josh Billings
#Evidence
#Greater
#Intelligence
#Nothing
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
- Josh Billings
#Common Sense
#Genius
#Intelligence
#More
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
- Josh Billings
#Feeling
#Good
#Laughter
#Over
#Place
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
- Josh Billings
#Bear
#Everyone
#Fear
#See
#Will
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
- Josh Billings
#Family
#Good
#Right
#She
#Woman
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
- Josh Billings
#Easy
#Experience
#Hard
#Learn
#Nothing
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
- Josh Billings
#Best
#Feel
#Time
#Tongue
#Your
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
- Josh Billings
#Funny
#Imagination
#Memory
#Mistake
#Who
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
- Josh Billings
#Better
#Know
#Nothing
#Than
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
- Josh Billings
#People
#Some People
#Truth
#Without
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
- Josh Billings
#Cologne
#Flattery
#Funny
#Like
#Water
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
- Josh Billings
#Change
#Fools
#Opinions
#Two
#Who
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
- Josh Billings
#Best
#Convince
#Fool
#Own
#Way
#Wrong
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
- Josh Billings
#Life
#Never
#Things
#Twins
#Two
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings
#Envy
#Looks
#Love
#Microscope
#Through
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
- Josh Billings
#Get
#Like
#One Thing
#Stamp
#Stick
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
- Josh Billings
#Beat
#Greatest
#Him
#Politeness
#Someone
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
- Josh Billings
#Age
#Cry
#Good
#Home
#Stay
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
- Josh Billings
#Age
#Difficulties
#Old Age
#Old
#Youth
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
- Josh Billings
#Dog
#Earth
#Love Yourself
#Love
#Pet
#Yourself
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
- Josh Billings
#Buy
#Dog
#Good
#Money
#Will
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- Josh Billings
#Cards
#Good
#Hold
#Life
#Well
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Josh Billings
#Complete
#Forgiveness
#Revenge
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
#Fitness
#Health
#People
#Time
#World
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
- Josh Billings
#Anger
#Hardest
#Refute
#Silence
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