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
- 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.
- Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
- Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
- Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
- 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.
- There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
- There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
- The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
- Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Best Quotes
- He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
- All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
- Technology favors horrible people.
- Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
- Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
- I want to help children in Serbia and around the world so they can realize their dreams.
- The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.
- Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
- I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.
- It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.