All Josh Billings Quotes
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
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Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
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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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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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There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
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The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
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Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
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Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
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There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
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Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
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