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61 quotes (Page 2 of 3 pages)It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
Self discovery
Josh Billings
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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
Knowledge
Josh Billings
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Life and Living
Josh Billings
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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
Life and Living
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Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
Men and Women
Josh Billings
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Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
Repentance
Josh Billings
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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
Music
Josh Billings
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Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
Debt
Josh Billings
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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.
Work
Josh Billings
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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Scandal
Josh Billings
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One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
Quality
Josh Billings
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Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
Pity
Josh Billings
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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
Poverty and The Poor
Josh Billings
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Conscience
Josh Billings
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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
Poverty and The Poor
Josh Billings
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Silence
Josh Billings
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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
Wisdom
Josh Billings
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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Fools and Foolishness
Josh Billings
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The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.
Medicine
Josh Billings
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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Self-control
Josh Billings
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
Fools and Foolishness
Josh Billings
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
Anxiety
Josh Billings
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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.
Knowledge
Josh Billings
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The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so.
Uncategorised
Josh Billings
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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Exaggeration
Josh Billings
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun