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Josh Billings Quotes

«Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.»
«As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.»
«Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.»
«There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.»
«When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: the sublime
«There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.»
«If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.»
«Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: mourn
«I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: by design
«A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: plug, plugging, plug in

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