“One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.”
Source: Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh
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Famous Josh Billings Quotes
“Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.”
Source: Josh Billings' Wit and Humor
“I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.”
“Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.”
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
“When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.”
“A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.”
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
“A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised