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Josh Billings Quotes

«Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: marrying, riskiest, risky
«There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.»
«Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | About: Ideas, Words | Keywords: hunting
«Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | About: Honesty | Keywords: loaf of bread
«Credit is like chastity, they can both stand temptation better than suspicion»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: chastity
«When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | About: Youth | Keywords: greased
«The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: thinner
«All the honesty in the world ain't legal tender for one loaf of bread»
«My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | About: Advice | Keywords: in earnest
«A sekret ceases to be a sekret if it iz once confided - it iz like a dollar bill, once broken, it iz never a dollar again»