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Josh Billings Quotes about Life

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Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

Josh Billings
Life, Positive, Inspiration

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Josh Billings
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

Josh Billings
Inspirational, Funny, Life
Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.208

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings
Inspirational, Life, Bad Day
Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Josh Billings
Funny, Life, Men

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Josh Billings
Life, Adversity, Fighting
Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Josh Billings
Life, Men, Years

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

Josh Billings
Life, Rich, Poor

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

Josh Billings
Inspirational, Life, Experience
Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

Josh Billings
Life, Time, Long
Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Josh Billings
Life, Faith, Safety

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