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