All Josh Billings Quotes
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
Josh Billings
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
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About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
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It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
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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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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
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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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There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
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There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
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