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
- 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.
- 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.
- Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
- The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
- Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
- 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 wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
- Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Best Quotes
- Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
- The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
- I want my music to do the explaining.
- I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse - I can't support it in fundamentalist compounds.
- I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.
- I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.
- Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
- The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
- Don't regret for the past Don't worry for the future All made by days and depend on present.
- My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.