Josh Billings - Life Quotes

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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings

Life is short, but if you notice the way most people spend their time, you would suppose that life was everlasting.

Josh Billings

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

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Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

Josh Billings

Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of.

Josh Billings

The great desire of my life is to amuse somebody. I had rather be able to set the multiplication table to some lively tune than to have been the author of it.

Josh Billings