Josh Billings Quotes - Page 11

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• It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

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  Addiction, Skins, Trying

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• Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet.

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  Tears, Poor, Diets

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• The books are balanced in heaven, not here.

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  Book, Heaven, Judgment

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• When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

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  Men, Giving, Advice

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• Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.

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  Inspirational, Kissing, Advice

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• I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

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  Time, Age, Aging

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• I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

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  Funny, Money, Next

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• It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

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  Sarcastic, Money, Sarcasm

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• The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

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  Forgiveness, Understanding, Secret

  "Getting Married". Play by George Bernard Shaw, www.gutenberg.org. 1908.

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• It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.

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  Humor, Deep Thought, Rich

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• It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven

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  Clever, Hard Work, Heaven

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• My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.

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  Funny, Heart, Journey

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• Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.

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  Happiness, Want, Humans

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.154

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• There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.

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  Mother, Children, Infidelity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 349, 1895.

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• It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

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  Wise, Men, Purpose

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• If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

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  Men, Conservative, Radical

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

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  Parent, Age, Ancestry

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• Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.

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  Appreciation, Eye, Men

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• Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

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  Echoes, Air, Gossip

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• The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.

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  Happiness, Perfect, Belief

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• Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.

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  Peace, Shadow, Virtue

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• Anxiety will bear a lot of nuisance.

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  Anxiety, Nuisance, Bears

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• The quickest way to take the starch out of someone who is always blaming himself is to agree with him.

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  Way, Blame, Agree

  Josh Billings (1953). “Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh”

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• Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.

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  Baths, Danger, Invigorating

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.197

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• Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.

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  Children, May, Shrewdness

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