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
- Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
- One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
- Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
- Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
- Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
- The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
- It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
- There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
- One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
Best Quotes
- Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
- Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
- I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.
- If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
- There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
- People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
- Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
- The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
- Abused patience turns to fury.
- God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.