Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.
Quote by Josh Billings
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Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.
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Josh Billings Quotes
- It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
- There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
- As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
- A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
- 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.
- 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.
- Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
- A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
- Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Best Quotes
- My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.
- In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
- When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
- I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.
- Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.
- In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
- I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.
- Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
- To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
- Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.