Josh Billings Quotes - Page 14

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• Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.

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  Advice, Example, Prove

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.216

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• Clothes form the intellect of the dandy.

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  Clothes, Form, Intellect

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• Taking from others never results in prosperity. If we steal from others, life will steal from us. There is an incredible abundance on this planet. True prosperity begins with feeling good about yourself and about the choices you make. Life is here for us. Life is here to support us in every way. We give out, we get back. 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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  Honesty, Giving, Choices

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• Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.

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  Tails, Ears, Ends

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.152

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• Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.

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  Doubt, Doe, Cards

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• If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.

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  Motivational, Believe, Ability

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• There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.

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  Judging, Agree, Good Judges

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• Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.

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  Practice, Doe, Looks

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• I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

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  Dog, Lying, Bulldogs

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• Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

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  Remember, Forget, Prophecy

  Affurisms (1865).

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

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  Husband, Jealous, Thinking

  Josh Billings (186?). “Josh Billings: His Book of Sayings”

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• The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.

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  Men, Enemy, Poor

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• Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.

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  Running, Coquette, Fortune

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.151

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• Fun is a sugar-coated physic.

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  Fun, Sugar

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• It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

  Josh Billings

  Learning, Science, Trouble

  "What We Don't Know About History Can Hurt Us" by John Stossel, www.foxnews.com. July 27, 2011.

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