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
- Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
- A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
- As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
- Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
- 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.
- I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
- The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
- 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.
- As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Best Quotes
- The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
- If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
- There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
- Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
- A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
- In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.
- You have to have courage to be obedient to God.
- What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.
- Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
- There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.