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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with J >> Quotes By Josh Billings |
| Quote #1: | "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." |
| Quote #2: | "Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute." |
| Quote #3: | "Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got." |
| Quote #4: | "There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply." |
| Quote #5: | "As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." |
| Quote #6: | "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." |
| Quote #7: | "Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does." |
| Quote #8: | "Knowledge is like money the more he gets, the more he craves." |
| Quote #9: | "Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed." |
| Quote #10: | "When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool." |
| Quote #11: | "It ain't what folks know that's the problem, it's what they know that ain't so." |
| Quote #12: | "About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment." |
| Quote #13: | "A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost--he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over." |
| Quote #14: | "Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there." |
| Quote #15: | "Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope." |
| Quote #16: | "We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do." |
| Quote #17: | "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness." |
| Quote #18: | "Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it." |
| Quote #19: | "Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners." |
| Quote #20: | "It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient." |
| Quote #21: | "After enlightenment, the laundry." |
| Quote #22: | "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." |
| Quote #23: | "What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do." |
| Quote #24: | "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." |
| Quote #25: | "Good nonsense is good sense in disguise." |
| Quote #26: | "The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do." |
| Quote #27: | "The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm." |
| Quote #28: | "A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself." |
| Quote #29: | "Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner." |
| Quote #30: | "I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway." |
| Quote #31: | "The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way." |
| Quote #32: | "The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it." |
| Quote #33: | "One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness." |
| Quote #34: | "Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail then you can let go when you want to." |
| Quote #35: | "Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot." |
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