The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Quote by Josh Billings
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
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Josh Billings Quotes
- 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.
- As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
- A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
- If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
Best Quotes
- To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
- My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
- The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.
- What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.
- Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.
- To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
- To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
- The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.