Josh Billings Quotes - Page 14

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• Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor.

  Josh Billings

  Medicine, Good Humor

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• You cannot analyze a kiss any more than you can dissect the fragrance of flowers.

  Josh Billings

  Flower, Kissing, Fragrance

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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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• ...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.

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  Horse, Virtue, Discourse

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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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• I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

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  Stay Strong, Home, Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Fun is a sugar-coated physic.

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  Fun, Sugar

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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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• 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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• 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.

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

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  Men, Enemy, Poor

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