All Josh Billings Quotes
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
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Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
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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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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings in
Intelligence
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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh Billings in
Marriage
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The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
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Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.
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The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.
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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh Billings in
Intelligence
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