Josh Billings Quotes

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If we give up our minds to little things we never shall be fit for big ones. I knew a man once who could catch more flies with one swoop of his hand than anybody else could, and he wasn't good at anything else.

Josh Billings
Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

Josh Billings
The wealth ov a person should be estimated, not bi the amount he haz, but bi the use he makes ov it.

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Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

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I don't know as it is a very difficult thing to be a good Indian up in heaven, but to come down here and be a good Indian, is just where the tight spot comes in.

Josh Billings
The cheapest and best way to convince a fool, is to agree with him.

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It is better to look wise, than to talk foolish.

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Every man has a perfect right to his opinion, provided it agrees with ours.

Josh Billings
There is no such thing as being proud before man and humble before God.

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Our continual desire for praise ought to satisfy us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

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People of good sense are those whose opinions agree with ours.

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The hornet is an inflammable bugger, sudden in his impressions and hasty in his conclusion, or end. His natural disposition is a warm cross between red pepper in the pod and fusel oil and his moral bias is, "Get out of my way."

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It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

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Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.

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Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.

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A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.

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The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.

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Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

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Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

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It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to commit, is asking tew mutch ov enny man, now days.

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Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

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A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.

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Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them.

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
We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.

Josh Billings