The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
Quote by Josh Billings
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The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
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Josh Billings Quotes
- A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
- There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
- There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
- A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
- I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
- There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
- I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
- One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
- Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Best Quotes
- To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
- If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
- It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.
- There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
- We two are to ourselves a crowd.
- In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
- And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.
- Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
- It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
- There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.