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There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?


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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS Who is to guard the guards themselves?
JUVENAL Who will guard the guards themselves?
(quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
JUVENAL The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billin...
JOSH BILLINGS A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
JOHN RUSSELL A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1) A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom
JOHN RUSSELL A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
JOHN RUSSELL A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
LATIN PROVERB In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS Josh Billings wrote, “It’s not what a man knows that hurts him; it’s what he knows that isn’...
BRIAN TRACY Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Bill...
JOSH BILLINGS The crossing guards are there for the children, ... They should go to the crossing guard to cross th...
ELLEN STEWART I think Steve is strong enough to guard [shooting guards] and quick enough to guard [point guards]. ...
LARRY BROWN My favorite Proverb: If you argue with a fool, how will they know who the fool is?
C. FERN COOK There are a lot of young musicians out there performing what they think is Latin jazz but instead is...
EDDIE PALMIERI The amount of people there is amazing. Traffic was unbelievable - making Billings look like the coun...
BOB CANDEE There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
ROGER ASCHAM Claire to Myrnin: "Do the guards at the mall know you're out?" He didn't look up. "That's very doubt...
RACHEL CAINE There is a real risk of devaluation in Venezuela. We've seen significant outflows from Brazil. ... S...
DAN MCGOVERN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - ...
JIM BAKKER I think he is one of the best players in the area. It is a test for anyone to guard him. Anyone who ...
KYLE RUCKS There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB Having Josh on the court was the big difference in the second half. When he was able to guard him, h...
FREDDY JOHNSON A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS We can't leave our guards out to hang. Last time, we depended on them too much to guard them.
KRISTEN KOVESDY A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.
MICHAEL HOGAN The company's billings growth continues to decelerate, a trend we expected to reverse its course. Gi...
BRAD REBACK I took it as a frustrated, idiotic comment, especially considering the slop he was throwing up there...
AARON BOONE When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER In college basketball, you can only go as far as your guard play takes you. A lot of people have pos...
DEVAN DOWNEY It definitely did. Our guards tried to force some passes that weren't there. Our guard play has got ...
CRAIG PIPPEN Josh played great. He took the place of (McNamara). He's a true point guard and I think he can help ...
DEMETRIS NICHOLS The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
AVICENNA There are some things Herman does athletically that make him fit as a guard. Now, height wise, he's ...
LES MILES There are some things Herman does athletically that make him fit as a guard, ... Now, height wise, h...
LES MILES Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Lat...
DIANE ACKERMAN Jim (senior) and I talked a couple of times over the last year about the crossing guard issue... abo...
JEFF WATERS His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING If Steve is back at point guard, that's four point guards. I'm not trying to make decisions for anyb...
JAMEER NELSON With their inside prowess, it makes it more challenging to guard them. What makes them so special is...
HERB SENDEK Aut viam inveniam aut faciam tibi.

I will either find a way or make one.
KENDALL RYAN I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested ...
DAVID MILCH There will be significant tuition increases behind this. There is no way to avoid that.
GEORGE PRUITT He can play center or guard. We'll be doing some pull schemes in our offense, so it's important that...
DANNY ROCCO [Coast Guard Lt. Joe Leonard, who is heading operations at the Astrodome, hopes everyone is out of l...
JOE LEONARD There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
THOMAS CARLYLE Will you treat people who make you miserable as prison guards, or travel agents?
LESLIE MIKLOSY Josh set a fast pace, didn't want to lose it there.
DAVI MILLSAPS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Our guys call him Rudy. Josh is a guy who comes to practice every day and goes hard.
DOC SADLER The man who sees consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a h...
G. K. CHESTERTON He is one of the most dedicated, hard-working kids I have ever coached. Josh is a solid four-year wr...
JASON ROSTORFER Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no ...
THOMAS FULLER Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE We wanted to keep him yielded. Tonight I challenged Josh Lawrence, who is a very good defender, to d...
TOD KOWALCZYK The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath the...
JOSEPH ADDISON The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath the...
JOSEPH ADDISON That a woman who is separated, was tortured and exiled now becomes the president of Chile is really ...
HERALDO MUNOZ A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY We saw him make some acrobatic catches. Quarterbacks like throwing the ball to the players who will ...
ED MEIERKORT For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to lea...
IRENAEUS OF LYONS Homo homini lupis est.
PLAUTUS Wit thou well that I will notlive long after thy days.
SIR THOMAS MALORY Debbie is a good shooting guard, who will fit in well on the perimeter. She possesses excellent cour...
DANA EIKENBERG We will be in a very tough position if the request is not supported by the voters. There is no way t...
PAUL COSTELLO Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS DIE, n. The singular of "dice." We seldom hear the word, because there is a prohibitory proverb, "Ne...
AMBROSE BIERCE There's still significant economies of scale to be had. It's going to help to buoy the price of many...
DAVID SCHANZER Cynicism is extremely contagious, and the most pious among us cannot long endure its potency. The gu...
MIKE CORBETT Uncle," she said. "Let me explain what will happen the instant one of your men makes a move toward m...
KRISTIN CASHORE I think what Cody does is take a lot pressure off our other guards and lets them fill their roles. K...
JEFF QUACKENBUSH I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap.
LATIN PROVERB Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.
LATIN PROVERB Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.
LATIN PROVERB A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.
LATIN PROVERB Glory is the shadow of virtue.
LATIN PROVERB If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
LATIN PROVERB It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's pres...
LATIN PROVERB What is useful cannot be base
LATIN PROVERB Subtlety set a trap and caught itself.
LATIN PROVERB The doctor is to be feared more than the disease
LATIN PROVERB If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own
LATIN PROVERB I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then i...
LATIN PROVERB Better late than never.
LATIN PROVERB A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
LATIN PROVERB Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.
LATIN PROVERB A learned man has always wealth in himself.
LATIN PROVERB Every madman thinks all other men mad.
LATIN PROVERB Clothes make the man.
LATIN PROVERB By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
LATIN PROVERB

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Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.
JOSH BILLINGS Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
JOSH BILLINGS If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety...
JOSH BILLINGS If it wasn't for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any s...
JOSH BILLINGS A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
JOSH BILLINGS Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
JOSH BILLINGS Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
JOSH BILLINGS As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.
JOSH BILLINGS Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
JOSH BILLINGS I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's...
JOSH BILLINGS Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
JOSH BILLINGS Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corr...
JOSH BILLINGS A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
JOSH BILLINGS If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectac...
JOSH BILLINGS Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he m...
JOSH BILLINGS Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
JOSH BILLINGS Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
JOSH BILLINGS A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
JOSH BILLINGS Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethe...
JOSH BILLINGS Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to...
JOSH BILLINGS The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so.
JOSH BILLINGS Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
JOSH BILLINGS The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable...
JOSH BILLINGS To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately.
JOSH BILLINGS I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
JOSH BILLINGS In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
JOSH BILLINGS As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
JOSH BILLINGS If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any sa...
JOSH BILLINGS There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
JOSH BILLINGS It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to...
JOSH BILLINGS Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
JOSH BILLINGS I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
JOSH BILLINGS The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
JOSH BILLINGS There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
JOSH BILLINGS I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
JOSH BILLINGS Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
JOSH BILLINGS Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, no...
JOSH BILLINGS Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
JOSH BILLINGS One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit nev...
JOSH BILLINGS Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
JOSH BILLINGS Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
JOSH BILLINGS Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
JOSH BILLINGS I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
JOSH BILLINGS Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
JOSH BILLINGS A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.
JOSH BILLINGS Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
JOSH BILLINGS About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgme...
JOSH BILLINGS Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing til...
JOSH BILLINGS If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy ...
JOSH BILLINGS To bring up a child in the way he should go -- travel that way yourself.
JOSH BILLINGS When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro...
JOSH BILLINGS The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
JOSH BILLINGS The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.
JOSH BILLINGS There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
JOSH BILLINGS It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter he...
JOSH BILLINGS It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
JOSH BILLINGS The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, t...
JOSH BILLINGS Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
JOSH BILLINGS The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his ...
JOSH BILLINGS Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
JOSH BILLINGS Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
JOSH BILLINGS There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.
JOSH BILLINGS Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
JOSH BILLINGS The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
JOSH BILLINGS Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
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JOSH BILLINGS There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy ...
JOSH BILLINGS Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
JOSH BILLINGS Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
JOSH BILLINGS There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
JOSH BILLINGS One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
JOSH BILLINGS I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am ...
JOSH BILLINGS There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
JOSH BILLINGS It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
JOSH BILLINGS A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
JOSH BILLINGS When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
JOSH BILLINGS The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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 Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
JOSH BILLINGS Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
JOSH BILLINGS Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
JOSH BILLINGS There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
JOSH BILLINGS There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.
JOSH BILLINGS A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
JOSH BILLINGS It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge...
JOSH BILLINGS Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
JOSH BILLINGS Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool
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JOSH BILLINGS There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly en...
JOSH BILLINGS Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
JOSH BILLINGS Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
JOSH BILLINGS A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.
JOSH BILLINGS I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I ...
JOSH BILLINGS The less we know the more we suspect.
JOSH BILLINGS My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in...
JOSH BILLINGS The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
JOSH BILLINGS Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed ...
JOSH BILLINGS The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.
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JOSH BILLINGS Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it ge...
JOSH BILLINGS Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.
JOSH BILLINGS As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
JOSH BILLINGS Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
JOSH BILLINGS The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
JOSH BILLINGS One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit n...
JOSH BILLINGS There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
JOSH BILLINGS Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
JOSH BILLINGS Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
JOSH BILLINGS There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
JOSH BILLINGS There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
JOSH BILLINGS Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
JOSH BILLINGS Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
JOSH BILLINGS Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to h...
JOSH BILLINGS Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
JOSH BILLINGS If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost specta...
JOSH BILLINGS Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
JOSH BILLINGS One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
JOSH BILLINGS Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
JOSH BILLINGS The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
JOSH BILLINGS There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they hav...
JOSH BILLINGS There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
JOSH BILLINGS If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.
JOSH BILLINGS One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon...
JOSH BILLINGS The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores hi...
JOSH BILLINGS There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorr...
JOSH BILLINGS Those who enter heaven may find the outer walls plastered with creeds, but they won't find any on th...
JOSH BILLINGS If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety.
JOSH BILLINGS My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing unt...
JOSH BILLINGS No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
JOSH BILLINGS It may be risky to marry for love, but it's so honest that the Lord just has to smile on it.
JOSH BILLINGS One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
JOSH BILLINGS Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
JOSH BILLINGS Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
JOSH BILLINGS There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
JOSH BILLINGS Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.
JOSH BILLINGS Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
JOSH BILLINGS Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one place.
JOSH BILLINGS Ive never known a person to live to one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
JOSH BILLINGS It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to comm...
JOSH BILLINGS I dont care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
JOSH BILLINGS Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
JOSH BILLINGS It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
JOSH BILLINGS Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.
JOSH BILLINGS There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: Twins.
JOSH BILLINGS A sekret ceases to be a sekret if it iz once confided - it iz like a dollar bill, once broken, it iz...
JOSH BILLINGS The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
JOSH BILLINGS Credit is like chastity, they can both stand temptation better than suspicion
JOSH BILLINGS Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
JOSH BILLINGS If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
JOSH BILLINGS I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, an...
JOSH BILLINGS Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawf...
JOSH BILLINGS It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
JOSH BILLINGS It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours to...
JOSH BILLINGS A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, better not strike at it
JOSH BILLINGS Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once
JOSH BILLINGS The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are
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JOSH BILLINGS Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughe...
JOSH BILLINGS The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billin...
JOSH BILLINGS There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -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 Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it get...
JOSH BILLINGS In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else.
JOSH BILLINGS Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal
JOSH BILLINGS The less we know the more we suspect
JOSH BILLINGS Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and four times he who gets his fist in fust
JOSH BILLINGS Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
JOSH BILLINGS There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins
JOSH BILLINGS To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
JOSH BILLINGS Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
JOSH BILLINGS Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer ...
JOSH BILLINGS Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughe...
JOSH BILLINGS Laffing iz the sensation ov pheeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot
JOSH BILLINGS The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates
JOSH BILLINGS Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if thare want ennything but contentment in his world, man w...
JOSH BILLINGS As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for
JOSH BILLINGS It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up...
JOSH BILLINGS Reason often makes mistakes but conscience never does.
JOSH BILLINGS The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust
JOSH BILLINGS I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
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.
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JOSH BILLINGS Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to
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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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