Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
Quote by Josh Billings
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
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Josh Billings Quotes
- There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
- Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
- 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.
- A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
- A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
- Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
- There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
- There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
- Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.
- There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Best Quotes
- The past is a story you can't change, but the future is a limitless destiny you can venture. Make your own history and your story shall live to be told.
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
- Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
- In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
- Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
- Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
- There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
- If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
- Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
- For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.