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Josh Billings - From the Advice category:
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. (Josh Billings)
Josh Billings - From the Commitment category:
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. (Josh Billings)
Josh Billings - From the Experience category:
Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground. (Josh Billings)
Josh Billings - From the Genius category:
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. (Josh Billings)
Josh Billings - From the Happiness category:
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs. (Josh Billings)
Josh Billings - From the Happiness category:
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. (Josh Billings)
Josh Billings - From the Pets category:
A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself. (Josh Billings)
Josh Billings - From the Prayer category:
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it. (Josh Billings)
Josh Billings - From the Recognition category:
-The Kicker, 1870
I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, / But the wheel that does the squeaking is the one that gets the grease. (Josh Billings)
Josh Billings - From the Silence category:
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. (Josh Billings)
Josh Billings - From the Truth category:
-The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, 1949
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. (Josh Billings)
Josh Billings - From the Words category:
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. (Josh Billings)
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