I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Quote by Josh Billings
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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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Josh Billings Quotes
- The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
- Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.
- 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.
- The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
- There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
- One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
- 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.
- Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
- There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
- The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Best Quotes
- War is the continuation of politics by other means.
- Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
- At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
- It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
- I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.
- The power of visibility can never be underestimated.
- The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
- In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.
- Maria is the best reason to come home.