Quotes by Josh Billings

Josh Billings

Josh Billings

American humorist

Lived from: 1818 - 1885

Category: Comedians Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 21 april 1818 Died: 14 october 1885

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  • 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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  • Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
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  • Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
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  • Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
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  • Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
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  • Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
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  • I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
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  • I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
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  • I have lived in the world just long enough to look carefully the second time into those things that I am most certain of the first time.
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  • I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.
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  • I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
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  • I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
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  • I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
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  • If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
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  • If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
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  • If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.
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  • In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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  • It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
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  • It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.
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  • It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
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