Josh Billings Quote: When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be…

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

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Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

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

Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.

He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.