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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Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
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Live truth instead of professing it.
We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.
The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife.
I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.
And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.
Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
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