Josh Billings Quotes - Page 6

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• There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.

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  Things In Life, Two, Comedy

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• Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.

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  Men

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.208

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• Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel.

  Josh Billings

  Law, Satire

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• I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.

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  Men, Way, Spells

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• Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.

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  Confidence, Wise, Men

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• As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.

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  Winning, Hands, Games

  "Josh Billings' Wit and Humor".

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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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  Differences, Suffering, Comedy

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• The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

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  Men, Thinking, Judgment

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• Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.

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  Work, Procrastination, Today

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• Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

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  Life, Men, Years

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• Man isn't a fool for his ignorance, but rather for believing things that are wrong.

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  Believe, Ignorance, Men

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• You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

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  Funny, Money, Income

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• The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.

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  Medicine, Gout, Lord

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• Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

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  Common Sense, Genius, Comedy

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• Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.

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  Prejudice, Assuming, Reason

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• A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.

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  Poor, Good Place

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• Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.

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  Lying, Moving, Blow

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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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  Inspirational, Smile, Anniversary

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• The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

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  Funny, Happiness, Business

  "Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh".

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• When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

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  Sarcastic, Sorry, Men

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• It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

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  Funny, Acceptance, Discovery

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• Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

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  Noblemen, Wealth, Pedigree

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• Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

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  Men, Bait, Debt

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.180

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• A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.

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  Men, Intellectual, Brain

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• Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.

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  World, Want, This World

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