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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

Josh Billings

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Josh Billings

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

Josh Billings

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Josh Billings

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

Josh Billings

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

Josh Billings

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Josh Billings

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

Josh Billings

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

Josh Billings

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Josh Billings

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Josh Billings

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Josh Billings

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

Josh Billings

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Josh Billings

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

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Josh Billings

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Josh Billings

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Josh Billings

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Josh Billings

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Josh Billings

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Josh Billings

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

Josh Billings

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

Josh Billings

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Josh Billings

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Josh Billings

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.

Josh Billings

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

Josh Billings

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

Josh Billings

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Josh Billings

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Josh Billings

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

Josh Billings

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Josh Billings

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

Josh Billings