Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
Quote by Josh Billings
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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
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Josh Billings Quotes
- There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
- 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.
- Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
- The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
- 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.
- 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.
- There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
- Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
- Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
Best Quotes
- My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.
- Business is a combination of war and sport.
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
- As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.
- I looked at some of the statues of Jesus they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.
- These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.
- Change is the end result of all true learning.
- The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
- We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.