Josh Billings Quotes

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Josh Billings

Profession : Comedian

Birth : April 21, 1818

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Josh Billings

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Josh Billings

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

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As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

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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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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

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Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

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Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

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

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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.

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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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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

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There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

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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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