Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Quote by Josh Billings
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Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
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Josh Billings Quotes
- A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
- 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.
- Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
- I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
- The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
- The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
- One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
- Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.
- Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
- Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Best Quotes
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can all of them make me laugh.
- I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
- Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.
- Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.
- Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
- It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
- Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
- Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
- I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.
- Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.