| 72 Famous Quotes by Josh Billings
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“About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.”
Art and artists Quotes |
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“Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.”
Bigotry Quotes |
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“There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.”
Birth Quotes |
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“Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.”
Borrowing Quotes |
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“There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.”
Brevity Quotes |
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“The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.”
Business Quotes |
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“Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.”
Common sense Quotes |
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“Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.”
Common sense Quotes |
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“Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Billings.”
Communication Quotes |
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“The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.”
Enemy Quotes |
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“Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.”
Experience Quotes |
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“Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.”
Experience Quotes |
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“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.”
Flattery Quotes |
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“The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.”
Flattery Quotes |
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“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.”
Forgiveness Quotes |
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“Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.”
Fraud Quotes |
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“The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.”
Glutton Quotes |
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“There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.”
Gravity Quotes |
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“My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.”
Life Quotes |
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“The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billings.”
Listening Quotes |
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“As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.”
Luck Quotes |
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“A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.”
Lying Quotes |
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“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.”
Marriage Quotes |
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“Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.”
Misery Quotes |
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“Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.”
Necessity Quotes |
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Josh Billings Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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