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
- A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
- Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
- Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
- There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
- The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
- 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 good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
- 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.
- The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
- Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Best Quotes
- Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.
- Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
- Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.
- Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.
- The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
- Trust, but verify.
- The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
- Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
- I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.