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.
Quote by Josh Billings
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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.
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Josh Billings Quotes
- About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
- Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
- Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
- The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
- Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
- Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
- 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.
- Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
- There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Best Quotes
- I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.
- Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
- I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
- At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.
- Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.
- When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
- Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
- Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
- I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
- Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.