Josh Billings

Josh Billings

"There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing."
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"There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing."
Josh Billings
"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense."
Josh Billings
"A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug."
Josh Billings
"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time."
Josh Billings
"I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry."
Josh Billings
"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us."
Josh Billings
"Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."
Josh Billings
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."
Josh Billings
"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."
Josh Billings
"It is the little things that fret and worry us you can dodge an elephant but not a fly."
Josh Billings
"There are people who are always anticipating trouble and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen."
Josh Billings
"As scarce as truth is the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
Josh Billings
"When a man gets talking about himself he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime."
Josh Billings
"It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient too."
Josh Billings
"It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too."
Josh Billings
"It is a very delicate job to forgive a man without lowering him in his estimation and yours too."
Josh Billings
"There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying."
Josh Billings
"Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself and then deliberately gets into."
Josh Billings
"Be like a postage stamp-stick to one thing until you get there."
Josh Billings
"Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail."
Josh Billings
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