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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
JOSH BILLINGS There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
JOSH BILLINGS Don't look now but there's one man too many in this room and I think it's you!
BERT KALMAR That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. ...
TAVIS SMILEY It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in gene...
RYAN REYNOLDS There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's ...
MARK WARKENTIN If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else w...
ELIZABETH OLSEN There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS No country's policies are eternal; they do vary. People are growing old, and a new generation is...
MARTTI AHTISAARI I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I ...
DAVID LYNCH Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that&#...
BABE RUTH You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when yo...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don&#...
ANN LANDERS Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't...
SIDNEY SHELDON Don't you find that the more you know, the more you don't know and can't ever learn beca...
LARRY HAGMAN If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just...
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
TED WILLIAMS That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, ...
LARS VON TRIER If I don't get eight hours, I can't function, so I'm a great believer in power naps.
BOBBY DAVRO There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know.
JACK SCALIA If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to...
SOL HUROK There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't...
BOBBY FISCHER I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense ...
MICKEY RIVERS Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don'...
MAGIC JOHNSON There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually...
JOSE MUJICA Working gives you this new perspective. You don't take everything too seriously, and you realise...
CLAIRE DANES I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't wa...
LUDIVINE SAGNIER Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people'...
BRYAN FULLER There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life&#...
ROBBIE WILLIAMS JLo and I did not get along well when we worked together. I don't think there's love lost. I...
CARRIE ANN INABA I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees t...
BRION JAMES 'They' is... stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of 'the...
DJ KHALED That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'
BROWNIE MCGHEE Too many children today are trapped in schools that don't work for them.
BETSY DEVOS There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I...
HALIMA ADEN Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not ...
LAUREN GRAHAM When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to h...
JACK WHITE Spaghetti... I can't eat spaghetti, there's too many of them. No matter how hungry I am, 1,0...
MITCH HEDBERG Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in y...
LIONEL RICHIE There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you&...
CATE BLANCHETT When you're on set all day, and you don't look people in the eye, it's really relaxing. ...
RYAN CARTWRIGHT There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don...
JOY FIELDING You don't see many Jon Jones's.
DANIEL CORMIER I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to...
KEN FOLLETT You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. T...
LOUIS C. K. To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of t...
LEONARD LAUDER I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the tim...
ALAN BEAN Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name o...
JOHN SUNUNU If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Fi...
JERRY DOYLE There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, yo...
LEOS CARAX There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will...
DALE DAUTEN There's just certain things you don't think about to enjoy a film. Bullets in space are one ...
MAGGIE GRACE If there's not enough money in the bank account, you don't spend it.
CHARLES SCHWAB Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothe...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE You want to earn respect in your old age. You want to walk into a restaurant and have people say: &#...
MICKEY ROURKE It's intimidating to try and pull your home together if you don't have an interior designer.
JACLYN SMITH There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody ...
WALTER MOSLEY Sometimes you don't want to get married too much to a lot of rehearsing, I feel, when it comes t...
SEBASTIAN STAN My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a w...
ALAN ZWEIBEL You can repeat things because it's on a set and there are actors. But if it's a great moment...
LARRY CHARLES There's a show in America where all these people compete with ferrets, and they don't even d...
ROBIN WILLIAMS Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don'...
CY YOUNG When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel ...
SIGOURNEY WEAVER There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.
SOPHIA LOREN I don't know that many Australian actors in Los Angeles, but there are a few of us. I mean, we k...
XAVIER SAMUEL There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life, it's a continuity thing. You can...
LEROY NEIMAN I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syll...
YELAWOLF If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
DARIO ARGENTO Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character'...
CHRISTOPHER MELONI I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you g...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don'...
BEN KATCHOR I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationshi...
TONY KUSHNER We don't sell a car, we sell a dream. We are Italy's national team. There are many great soc...
LUCA CORDERO DI MONTEZEMOLO I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situation...
BILL CALLAHAN There's a stigma about being vegan. Some people say it doesn't taste great. Don't knock ...
TIA MOWRY Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if y...
NOAH HAWLEY If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, ...
HILARY MANTEL There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
SYLVIA PLATH If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a lit...
MARTIN LAWRENCE I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tensio...
JOHN LE CARRE Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're ...
GERARD DEPARDIEU There are people who have energy that say 'don't come near me, don't get too close.'...
NATHAN FILLION A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say yo...
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I&#...
ZACH BRAFF I've never owned a T-shirt. I don't like vests or sweaters or cardies with zips. I like a pr...
HOWARD JACOBSON I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it...
BUSY PHILIPPS I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. ...
MILA KUNIS I don't believe there is any point in holding on to too many things in life.
KATRINA KAIF If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave t...
JOSE MUJICA I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing ...
NICHOLAS HOULT I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish livin...
PATRICIA POLACCO I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don...
DAVE NAVARRO There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's...
TED CRUZ It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh...
CLARENCE THOMAS You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a b...
ASHTON KUTCHER I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe,...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're t...
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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.
JOSH BILLINGS Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful t...
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 is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
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
JOSH BILLINGS Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed
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.
JOSH BILLINGS If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy...
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 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
JOSH BILLINGS In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worshi...
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.
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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