I dont care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
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I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
JOSH BILLINGS Josh Billings wrote, “It’s not what a man knows that hurts him; it’s what he knows that isn’...
BRIAN TRACY There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Bill...
JOSH BILLINGS People live for eating,but
I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL Josh, you saw him," Tally says, "What did he look like? Did he look nice?"
"He looked lik...
SEVENTHSWAN The only man who doesn’t think a woman talks too much is the man who is in love with her.
VIKRANT PARSAI Never spoil a man of words. 'Cause what he says, he does. And when he does, he really means it.
ALEXANDER A. MANANTAN No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought i...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
HENRY ADAMS I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it...
AIMEE CARTER Eyes says, tongue only talks.
AMIT KALANTRI If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearles...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billin...
JOSH BILLINGS When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself,
he is very careful about how much ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN One merit of poetry few persons will deny; it says more, and in few words, than prose
VOLTAIRE [While Richards says he might not have written the song himself, Jagger felt strongly about it.] I f...
KEITH RICHARDS If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman
COCO CHANEL When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself,he is very careful about how much he sp...
MILTON FRIEDMAN It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Being a man of very few ideas, he cherished those he had with an exaggerated care.
GILBERT PARKER St. Clair waggles his eyebrows at Josh, but the moment he sees that I've caught him, his expression ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS His lips move silently, and I know what he says: the words of a poem that only two people in the wor...
ALLY CONDIE I don't care if anybody talks about us.
DES HENNESSY "Dont forget me" says love.
"Forget me if you have to" says true love............
PRABHA I heard of a man
who says words so beautifully
that if he only speaks their name
wome...
LEONARD COHEN I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says...
MARK TWAIN A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ...
RICHARD PRATT I am a man of few words, but many riddles.
FRANK GORSHIN It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by,...
TOM PERROTTA I am a shark, Cassie," he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for t...
RICK YANCEY Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves lik...
KARL KRAUS Mr. Wilder says he would rather have me help than any man he ever sawed with. And, believe me, I lea...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid a man who talks too much
BIBLE If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed....
THOMAS WOLFE Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.
APROCRYPHA One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
VOLTAIRE A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I don't know how far a man could travel... I don't know how many roads he needs to cross... I don't ...
ALON CALINAO DY I wonder if they know how much their words hurt?
ALEXIS PAGE Governor Perry taught me how to be a good man and to be a good husband. Not only does he have to tak...
MARCUS LUTTRELL Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid."
"What do you think?" his father as...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly...
THOMAS WOLFE It gets worse. Josh tell her that he loves her. She says it back. He touches her. She touches him ba...
STEPHANIE PERKINS A man who says that he knows everything, does not know how to be meek.
BRANDITTES CHUA Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself.
JOHN PODHORETZ If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine h...
EDGAR WATSON HOWE I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how...
FERDINAND MARCOS Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, th...
JOHN MORLEY Man is the only animal species who dont believe eachother.
SHANNY I don't care how much you know until I know how much you care.
SOURCE UNKNOWN If I met him just another day, I could have told how much I loved him, how much I cared for him, how...
NISHI DE SILVA Josh Gad was in my class. Katy Mixon. Griffin Matthews. Josh Groban - he ended up leaving to become ...
LESLIE ODOM, JR. I love you,” he says again, “and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I ...
KRISTA RITCHIE Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's g...
VLADIMIR PUTIN If you can control a mans thinking, you dont have to worry about his actions. If you can determine w...
CARTER WOODSON A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER The measure of a man is what he does with power.
PLATO I have an older son, Josh, and growing up, he just didn't care that much for baseball. And that ...
BRUCE SUTTER [Perhaps his response had something to do with Denton's assessment of Latham, as given on Triple M l...
ANDREW DENTON Doctor says to a man "You're pregnant!" The man says "How does a man get pregnant?" The doctor says ...
HENNY YOUNGMAN Only if it becomes a distraction will he stop mentioning records. He says he'll always keep it out f...
ALY BYORICK I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe wh...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how fa...
SOURCE UNKNOWN He doesn't lead with a dictatorship. He walks the walk. In other words, what he says, he does.
ERV HATZENBUHLER I dont know if anybody knows how to recover from this,
BOB ISRAEL I'm not sure how much that hair weighs. As long as it doesn't slow him down, I don't care. He can gr...
DICK LEBEAU I love you," I say to him, but it only comes out, "Hey"
"So damn much," he says back, it ...
JANDY NELSON If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagi...
E. W. HOWE That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you d...
SUZANNE COLLINS I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.
MARK TWAIN I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if ...
ABRAHAM VERGHESE There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blam...
ARNOLD BENNETT There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blam...
GOLDA MEIR If I had a soul I sold it
for pretty words
If I had a body I used
it up spurting my e...
ALLEN GINSBERG He thought how much he liked her and had in common with her, and how much she'd like and have in com...
KINGSLEY AMIS I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I d...
PRESTON BRADLEY I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I d...
PRESTON BRADLEY If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he ...
THOMAS WOLFE I get more nervous for (Josh) than I did when I wrestled. I wanted him to do well. I knew how much p...
JUSTIN ARTHUR I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”
“So damn much,” he says back, on...
JANDY NELSON I have to constantly rein in my nostalgia for the 1970s, in case it takes me over and I become one o...
JONATHAN COE And long afterwards, in moments of the greatest merriment, there would rise before him the figure of...
NIKOLAI GOGOL I just dont know how...to think less. If you know how, then teach me...
AISHAH MADADIY No, I care more about what God knows than what man says.
DAVE MUSTAINE If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!
CRAIG FERGUSON Josh will begin disappearing into a future where the only place he and I remain friends is on the In...
JAY ASHER The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
HILAIRE BELLOC A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you...
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JOSH BILLINGS In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
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JOSH BILLINGS Reason often makes mistakes but conscience never does.
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JOSH BILLINGS Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well
JOSH BILLINGS Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined
JOSH BILLINGS Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves.
JOSH BILLINGS Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
JOSH BILLINGS Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy a...
JOSH BILLINGS Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to
JOSH BILLINGS The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way
JOSH BILLINGS Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's ...
JOSH BILLINGS As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
JOSH BILLINGS Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well
JOSH BILLINGS Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
JOSH BILLINGS The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
JOSH BILLINGS the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
JOSH BILLINGS Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
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