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
- The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
- The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
- If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
- I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
- The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
- There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
- 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.
- The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
- If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
- If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
- There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
- If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
- It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
- The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
- I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
- The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
- It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
- If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.