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Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.


Josh Billings

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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
JOSH BILLINGS Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
JOSH BILLINGS Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
G. K. CHESTERTON Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Bill...
JOSH BILLINGS Josh Billings wrote, “It’s not what a man knows that hurts him; it’s what he knows that isn’...
BRIAN TRACY The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the o...
HELEN ROWLAND The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the ...
HELEN ROWLAND The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the op...
HELEN ROWLAND Everyone has his foolishness and mostly those are the most interesting things a person has.
JOSH BILLINGS The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he ha...
HELEN ROWLAND Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in whic...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in whic...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man is important is he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to r...
G. K. CHESTERTON Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others...
LYDIA M. CHILD Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A man who has blown all his options can’t afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capita...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just afte...
H. L. MENCKEN Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just afte...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Brad has football savvy, and he has the arm to make every throw. His height doesn't hurt any, but th...
CHIP HESTER If anybody has seen this man, (they) know what kind of pain he's in. He's 69 years old. We've got to...
DAVID SCHMIDLY Josh has the potential to be an impact player at the Division I level given his size and shooting sk...
LARS TIFFANY Science is interesting... Albert Eistein has said that he believe in religion, and he has said "Scie...
DEYTH BANGER People will rather appreciate a man who wears one suit out of the several he has got and refuse to v...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This wavering paradox is a pillar of the outlaw stance. A man who has blown all his options can't af...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON Every man has his price.
SIR ROBERT WALPOLE If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
HERMANN HESSE If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do
HERMANN HESSE Our children are our most precious thing. There has to be consequences when a man breaks into anothe...
BOB ANDERSON The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religi...
SAMUEL BUTLER The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religiou...
SAMUEL BUTLER The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billin...
JOSH BILLINGS He who is satisfied with what he has, is a rich man. -Nabil N. Jamal
NABIL N. JAMAL Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG He's great. He's a great actor, has a really interesting presence. It kind of reminds me of … he ha...
WENTWORTH MILLER He's great. He's a great actor, has a really interesting presence. It kind of reminds me of … he h...
WENTWORTH MILLER Allah is the Creator of every thing and He has charge over every thing.
QURAN Josh is a quality hitter, and against Long Beach it showed that we can not afford to have his bat ou...
WAYNE GRAHAM Jo? Look at me. I’m about to do something really f**king stupid. When I do this, I need you to rem...
SHERRILYN KENYON You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson...
DEYTH BANGER Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he think...
ALPHONSE KARR Every man has three characters-that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks h...
ALPHONSE KARR (1808-1890) Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks...
ALPHONSE KARR It's a heart breaking story. He has nothing. All he has is his girlfriend and bastard child It's OK ...
CATHIA PAGOTTO Every man has two countries, his own and France.
HENRI DE BORNIER Every man has two countries, his own and France
HENRI DE BORNIER A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the cul...
ALICIA MACHADO Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other pers...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other pe...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
PROVERB Bill has stated many times Penn Hills has been good to him. He made most of his money in the communi...
FRANK PECORA What Josh needs to figure out is a style of catching. Once he figures out his style and what he's co...
GARY TUCK I think that's what the whole 12th-man thing has done. It's made them really feel like they are part...
WARREN MOON He's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks the most interesting thing about any st...
TOM STOPPARD Josh really needed to red-shirt last year, and he's made great progress. There has never been a ques...
MIKE TURNER Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He ha...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Josh is just a great athlete. He has a couple of colleges looking at him. Both Dan and Pat are both ...
JAY BLAYLOCK If you think that every bad thing that has been done on the face of the earth has been done by man, ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN When I met Richard Leakey, I thought, 'This is the most charismatic man I've ever met.' ...
ERIC ROTH If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man...
WILLIAM BLAKE God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed with the currency time
SUNDAY ADELAJA Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
BERNARD M. BARUCH Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
BERNARD BARUCH Every man has an option i.e LIFE or WIFE; but if he wants both of his own, then his living has to ha...
ANUJ SOMANY Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource prid...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Josh comes in large and quick, he has excellent potential for the offensive and defensive line.
JOSH TAYLOR All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to ...
GRAHAM NORTON Goaltending has been the biggest thing for us. (Josh) Harding and Seamus were the difference for us ...
KIRBY LAW If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite.
For ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-was.
TINY TIM Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door.
His name, as I ought to have told you before,
Is reall...
T.S. ELIOT You don't know what in reality has happen...!?
DEYTH BANGER God has made us as pawns... when he is bored of playing with us on the playground he just remove us....
DEYTH BANGER Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexua...
MARK TWAIN Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts
BERNARD M. BARUCH Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect o...
BESSIE STANLEY Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his...
JOSEPH M. DODGE Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him do...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He runs the same routes. It's a 'go' route, and he throws his hand up if he feels he has you beat . ...
BRIAN DAWKINS It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.
SHELLEY FABARES Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.
SENECA Every dog has his day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weak-end.
JUNE CARTER If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. Every man has his element. Sheridan's is hot water.
JOHN ELDON Every man has three worlds. What he perceives, what he shows to the world and his reality. The third...
HARSHIT WALIA The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his ...
G. K. CHESTERTON Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
BERNARD BARUCH Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
BERNARD M. BARUCH Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
BERNARD BARUCH Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the ...
AYN RAND Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, an...
SYDNEY SMITH

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Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.
JOSH BILLINGS Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
JOSH BILLINGS If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety...
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JOSH BILLINGS A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
JOSH BILLINGS Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
JOSH BILLINGS Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
JOSH BILLINGS As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.
JOSH BILLINGS Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
JOSH BILLINGS I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's...
JOSH BILLINGS Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
JOSH BILLINGS Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corr...
JOSH BILLINGS A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
JOSH BILLINGS If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectac...
JOSH BILLINGS Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he m...
JOSH BILLINGS Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
JOSH BILLINGS Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
JOSH BILLINGS A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
JOSH BILLINGS Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethe...
JOSH BILLINGS Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to...
JOSH BILLINGS The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so.
JOSH BILLINGS Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
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JOSH BILLINGS To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately.
JOSH BILLINGS I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
JOSH BILLINGS In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
JOSH BILLINGS As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
JOSH BILLINGS If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any sa...
JOSH BILLINGS There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
JOSH BILLINGS It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to...
JOSH BILLINGS Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
JOSH BILLINGS I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
JOSH BILLINGS The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
JOSH BILLINGS There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
JOSH BILLINGS I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
JOSH BILLINGS Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
JOSH BILLINGS Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, no...
JOSH BILLINGS Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
JOSH BILLINGS One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit nev...
JOSH BILLINGS Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
JOSH BILLINGS Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
JOSH BILLINGS Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
JOSH BILLINGS I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
JOSH BILLINGS Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
JOSH BILLINGS A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.
JOSH BILLINGS Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
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JOSH BILLINGS Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing til...
JOSH BILLINGS If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy ...
JOSH BILLINGS To bring up a child in the way he should go -- travel that way yourself.
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JOSH BILLINGS The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
JOSH BILLINGS The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.
JOSH BILLINGS There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
JOSH BILLINGS It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter he...
JOSH BILLINGS It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
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JOSH BILLINGS The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his ...
JOSH BILLINGS Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
JOSH BILLINGS Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
JOSH BILLINGS There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.
JOSH BILLINGS Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
JOSH BILLINGS The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
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JOSH BILLINGS Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
JOSH BILLINGS Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
JOSH BILLINGS There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
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JOSH BILLINGS Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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JOSH BILLINGS When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
JOSH BILLINGS The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
JOSH BILLINGS Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
JOSH BILLINGS Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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JOSH BILLINGS The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
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JOSH BILLINGS There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
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JOSH BILLINGS There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
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JOSH BILLINGS Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
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JOSH BILLINGS One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
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JOSH BILLINGS No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
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JOSH BILLINGS Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
JOSH BILLINGS There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
JOSH BILLINGS Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.
JOSH BILLINGS Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
JOSH BILLINGS Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one place.
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JOSH BILLINGS Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
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JOSH BILLINGS Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.
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JOSH BILLINGS It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
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JOSH BILLINGS A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, better not strike at it
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JOSH BILLINGS Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughe...
JOSH BILLINGS The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billin...
JOSH BILLINGS There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Bill...
JOSH BILLINGS Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it get...
JOSH BILLINGS In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else.
JOSH BILLINGS Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal
JOSH BILLINGS The less we know the more we suspect
JOSH BILLINGS Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and four times he who gets his fist in fust
JOSH BILLINGS Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
JOSH BILLINGS There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins
JOSH BILLINGS To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
JOSH BILLINGS Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
JOSH BILLINGS Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer ...
JOSH BILLINGS Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughe...
JOSH BILLINGS Laffing iz the sensation ov pheeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot
JOSH BILLINGS The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates
JOSH BILLINGS Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if thare want ennything but contentment in his world, man w...
JOSH BILLINGS As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for
JOSH BILLINGS It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up...
JOSH BILLINGS Reason often makes mistakes but conscience never does.
JOSH BILLINGS The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust
JOSH BILLINGS I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
JOSH BILLINGS Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well
JOSH BILLINGS Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined
JOSH BILLINGS Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves.
JOSH BILLINGS Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
JOSH BILLINGS Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy a...
JOSH BILLINGS Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to
JOSH BILLINGS The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way
JOSH BILLINGS Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's ...
JOSH BILLINGS As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
JOSH BILLINGS Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well
JOSH BILLINGS Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
JOSH BILLINGS The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
JOSH BILLINGS the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
JOSH BILLINGS Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
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