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