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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  • There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
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  • There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
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  • There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
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  • There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
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  • Those who enter heaven may find the outer walls plastered with creeds, but they won't find any on the inside.
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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.
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  • Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
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  • To bring up a child in the way he should go - travel that way yourself.
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  • To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately.
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  • Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
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  • When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
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  • When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
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  • When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
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  • Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.
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  • Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
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  • Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
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  • You can buy a pretty good dog with a lot of money, but you can't buy the wag of its tail.
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  • Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
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  • There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
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