114 Quotations by Josh Billings
- 21. Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it get ...
- 22. Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
- 23. Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, no ...
- 24. Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
- 25. Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
- 26. Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
- 27. Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.
- 28. Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
- 29. Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
- 30. Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
- 31. Faith is the soul riding at anchor.
- 32. Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
- 33. Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful t ...
- 34. I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
- 35. I don't care how much a person talks if they only say it in a few words.
- 36. I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am ...
- 37. I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
- 38. I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's ...
- 39. I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
- 40. If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy ...
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