Josh Billings
Comedian
1818-04-21
Quotes by Josh Billings
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
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Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
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Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
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There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.
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In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
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the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.
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the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
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Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
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In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
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Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
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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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Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
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