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Josh Billings Quotes

«Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | About: Experience | Keywords: learns
«He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: humbles
«Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: blunders
«The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | About: Medicine | Keywords: gout, rheumatism
«If it wasn't for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any safety.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: hash, hashed, safety
«Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.»
«Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: follies, reduce
«It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there isn't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.»
«There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: Judges
«There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them»

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