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Josh Billings Quotes - Page 14

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There's one good thing about tight shoes; they make you forget your other troubles.

There's one good thing about tight shoes; they make you forget your other troubles.

Shoes, Forget You, Trouble

Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor.

Medicine, Good Humor

Taking from others never results in prosperity. If we steal from others, life will steal from us. There is an incredible abundance on this planet. True prosperity begins with feeling good about yourself and about the choices you make. Life is here for us. Life is here to support us in every way. We give out, we get back. 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.

Honesty, Giving, Choices

You cannot analyze a kiss any more than you can dissect the fragrance of flowers.

Flower, Kissing, Fragrance

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

Men, Wrinkles, Habit

It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to commit, is asking tew mutch ov enny man, now days.

Men, Asking, Sin

Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.232

The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.

Men, Enemy, Poor

There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.

Judging, Agree, Good Judges

Fun is a sugar-coated physic.

Fun, Sugar

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

Dog, Lying, Bulldogs

Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.

Practice, Doe, Looks

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

Learning, Science, Trouble

"What We Don't Know About History Can Hurt Us" by John Stossel, www.foxnews.com. July 27, 2011.

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

Remember, Forget, Prophecy

Affurisms (1865).

Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them.

Husband, Jealous, Thinking

Josh Billings (186?). “Josh Billings: His Book of Sayings”

Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.

Running, Coquette, Fortune

Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.151

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