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Famous Josh Billings Quotes
“Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.”
“Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.”
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
“Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.”
“We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.”
“Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.”
Source: Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor
“When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.”
“Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised