Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
Quote by Josh Billings
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Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
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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
- I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
- Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
- People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.
- Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
- Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
- If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
- All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
- The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
- When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.
- It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.