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Josh Billings Quotes

«I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: folks, impudence
«Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.»
«Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: fellows, sweethearts
«I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: talks
«Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | About: Sin | Keywords: repent, thanking
«A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, better not strike at it»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: hornet, hornets, slander
«Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: charms, revolver, soothe
«The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: exalted, rode, roughshod
«Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: enjoyed, put off
«The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.»

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