Josh Billings
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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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.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
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.
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
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Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold.
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.
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