Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billin...
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“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.”
“Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.”
“When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.”
“He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.”
Source: Josh Billings' Wit and Humor
“Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.”
“There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.”
“Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.”
Source: Josh Billings' Wit and Humor
“Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.”
“If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel.”
Source: Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor
Source: Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor
“Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.”
Source: Josh Billings' Wit and Humor
“A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.”
“It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.”
“Faith is the soul riding at anchor.”
Source: Josh Billings' Wit and Humor
“Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.”
Source: Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor
“Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.”
“The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.”
“Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them.”
Source: Josh Billings: His Book of Sayings
Source: Josh Billings, His Book of Sayings
“As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.”
“If animals had reason, they would act just as ridiculous as we menfolks do.”
“Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.”
“Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.”
“Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.”
“Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.”
“Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.”
Source: Josh Billings' Wit and Humor
“It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.”
“Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway.”