About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings Quotations
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
After enlightenment, the laundry.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
It ain't what folks know that's the problem, it's what they know that ain't so.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner.
Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail then you can let go when you want to.
Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Knowledge is like money the more he gets, the more he craves.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost--he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done.
One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.