I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.


Josh Lanyon

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Once we had a bunny with floppy ears. It was huge. We thought it was going to be a piece of cake to ...
EILEEN WIEBER
You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."

"I...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS
Your ears love to hear, so speak to it
SOTONYE ANGA
If you asked me to seriously kiss someone on a screen, I would be very uncomfortable. But I will lic...
KATE MCKINNON
How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER
Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK
How odd, I thought, that even though I don't believe it still feels nice to be included.
LOUIS THEROUX
Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac...
KAREN A. ANDERSON
The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
MARK WAHLBERG
Do not let the tears fool you. She lied and cheated once, she will again. Your call to continue with...
TREVON CLARK
I don't think man and woman should be compared, You don't compare things that complete one another.
FAITH N.
Those who want to hear from you will let you hear from them.
TREVON CLARK
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS
The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.
JOSH LANYON
Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with. If I'd had a sister or a brother closer i...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
MOTHER NATURE GAVE YOU A BELLY BUTTON ON YOUR BIRTHDAY. A Belly Button is an odd gift indeed but it ...
ED BULEY
I never once got to the point where I said it's time to move on and go somewhere else and thought it...
KORDELL STEWART
How wonderful it must be, I thought, to be able to just spread your wings whenever you like without ...
GINA HOLMES
It was a little hard when I had injuries. It was hard to come back because you knew what you were on...
JOYA CANFIELD
Daisy had no idea how to put herself to rights again. But she thought it would be a good thing to st...
LISA KLEYPAS
I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a rem...
JODI PICOULT
It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON
When your looking for the love you thought you had for someone and it starts to become too difficult...
JASHON P
When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in lo...
JAY-Z
Dare to follow your own paths.
Dare to be yourself.
Dare to be different.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA
I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinari...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
You get a job when you have the right qualifications and work experience. Similarly, individuals sho...
MADDY MALHOTRA
To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do tha...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI
If you want to be happy or if you want to be miserable—either way is your choice. So choose to be ...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR
Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger ...
CRISS JAMI
A partner to share the ups and downs with. Honor and strength, and knowing you're stronger together ...
DONNA ALWARD
He won't feel a fraction of what I do for you. You won't change his life. And you will always wonder...
JOSH LANYON
It’s more believable that a cop would get involved in solving these murders. I mean, you’re talk...
JOSH LANYON
The best way to be happy is to be kind to someone.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY
The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.
LALAH DELIA
This is your moment. You're meant to be here.
HERB BROOKS
Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and fin...
ANNETTE BENING
Everything that I wanted to say in my statement was not permitted and that's not just me. That's eve...
MARISSA HURST
When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
If I were there, Carrie, I would need to feel how soft the skin on the inside of your thighs is, fir...
MARY ANN RIVERS
I had a teacher who stressed for me the importance of diction in terms of... I want to be very caref...
JULIE ANDREWS
Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.
YANCY BUTLER
Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF
You can’t start out again in life, that’s a carriage ride you only take once, but with a book in...
ORHAN PAMUK
But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, t...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Writing Skinny Chris was a very odd process – it felt like I had brought back to life a dead man a...
CARLA H. KRUEGER
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD
If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON
There is no one right way.

Just figure out what works for you!
LORII MYERS
Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'...
AYN RAND
When I was young, my voice was so strong, and I would annoy people because I had such a loud little ...
SKYLAR GREY
Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps ...
AMIT RAY
They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
JACKIE COOPER
The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER
Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD
To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON
To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN
In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND
And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER
There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON
Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN
Listen with your eyes and not your ears ! your ears will lie to you ,but your eyes will tell you the...
RUBY RACHELLE HARDEE
see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted ...
COLSON WHITEHEAD
It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts ...
FREDERICK POLLOCK
I turned back to the television. After a while what I was staring at registered. “Hey, this is ...
JOSH LANYON
What made you fall in love with a prostitute?”
“I didn’t understand it myself at the time...
PAULO COELHO
Wherever I am, you belong. You're mine. Say it.
J. KENNER
I'm guilty of this,
Holding on to the past,
By not letting go of the paint,
once you...
DIANERSTE ROSS
I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing villag...
KIEFER SUTHERLAND
Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n...
BEN BROWN
I thought it would be impossible for somebody to get that unlucky again. I mean, so much went wrong;...
MATT DAMON
As ever, the original inhabitants of Turtle Island are entirely overlooked. Mysteriously, the only t...
INGA MUSCIO
It feels strange to be ignored in general, but when someone who was once an integral part of your li...
JOSé N. HARRIS
Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was...
JOAN ALLEN
To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.
CHANTAL KREVIAZUK
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD
You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions we...
STEPHENIE MEYER
Hope for the best, ‘never’ prepare for the rest, and treat yourself as present’s guest.
ANUROOP TYAGI
Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q...
JAMES RHODES
Whether you choose to move on from your struggles and enjoy life or waddle in your misery, life will...
GERMANY KENT
Once you come to terms with your shortcomings and not chase a mirage of an imaginable perfect person...
LATIKA TEOTIA
I had often wondered how to best decolonize my people... It must be done one human being at a time. ...
RUSSELL MEANS
You ever lick butter off your finger and then realize it was soap? Me neither
KRIS HUEN
Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word th...
SARAH DESSEN
I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it bec...
DANIEL BALDWIN
I'd thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I'd thought I could help you fall asl...
KRISTIN CASHORE
You know how you heal really fast?” I stood and walked to the doorway that separated our offices. ...
DARYNDA JONES

More Josh Lanyon

The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.
JOSH LANYON
A pause followed my greeting. Then “We’re watching you ” whispered the voice on the other end....
JOSH LANYON
Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent mysel...
JOSH LANYON
Why can't you say it?" I hardened my voice. "Because I'm telling you, you never have. I'd hav...
JOSH LANYON
The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.
JOSH LANYON
If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical...
JOSH LANYON
And yet, even as I made these plans, there was a small dismayed corner of my heart. Like those stupi...
JOSH LANYON
She didn‟t look like the athletic type to me.”

“Maybe Nemov carried her. He looked...
JOSH LANYON
He won't feel a fraction of what I do for you. You won't change his life. And you will always wonder...
JOSH LANYON
I do not want this cat. No, Nat. Not in a hat. Not in my flat. Not in the store, not anymore, just o...
JOSH LANYON
See! He likes you,” Natalie said triumphantly.

I stared down at the scrawny scrap of fu...
JOSH LANYON
'Adult life is a series of compromises, Adrien.'

'Yeah, only you're negotiating with th...
JOSH LANYON
So you're like a ... an amateur sleuth?"

"God no. I'm more like the hapless guys in those...
JOSH LANYON
'Darling, you have to come home,' she started in as soon as I answered. 'You cannot possibly want t...
JOSH LANYON
She went on, “Yes, Porter and I did discuss divorce, and we realized we loved each other too much ...
JOSH LANYON
Her back to me, she said, “I know what Paul thinks. Everyone thinks I didn’t love Porter, that I...
JOSH LANYON
Emma sat up very straight in the saddle. Her eyes were huge, but she said bravely, “I could do it!...
JOSH LANYON
'You remember asking me if I'd ever begged?'

I wiped the corner of my eyes, sniffed. 'I...
JOSH LANYON
Look, Paul. I appreciate what you’re telling me, but I gave Jake my word. Not to mention the fact,...
JOSH LANYON
I gave a helpless laugh. “Damned if I know. I think…we seem to have reached impasse.
I feel...
JOSH LANYON
'You know what I thought the first time I saw you?'

'No.'

'Point of no retu...
JOSH LANYON
Guy was saying, “What the hell is it about you that attracts murder and mayhem?"

"Somet...
JOSH LANYON
I’ve been telling you that you should hire Warren.”

“Nat, I’m not going to hire W...
JOSH LANYON
He said you were on the scene when that Laurel Canyon homicide went down.”

“I’m luc...
JOSH LANYON
Natalie said, “That detective in charge of the case: is he your Jake?”

My mout...
JOSH LANYON
She shrugged another plump shoulder. “I never listened to Porter when he got going.”

...
JOSH LANYON
Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in ...
JOSH LANYON
It means I know you, Adrien with an e, and I know you get reckless when you're impatient. You...
JOSH LANYON
I turned back to the television. After a while what I was staring at registered. “Hey, this is ...
JOSH LANYON
He was breathing, which is always a good sign.
As gently as I could I picked him up, placed him...
JOSH LANYON
The phone rang, picked up, and the same male voice announced, “Chris Powers."

"Hey ther...
JOSH LANYON
And I thought maybe I didn't need to worry about my heart anymore because it had stopped beating a c...
JOSH LANYON
I noticed you right away.” She gave me an approving look. “I like quiet, polite men. And men who...
JOSH LANYON
Shrugging out of the damaged shirt, Jake said roughly, “I still dream about you.”

“...
JOSH LANYON
I love you," Jake whispered. "Are you strong enough for this?"
I made myself comfortable. Said ...
JOSH LANYON
Wanda's sole interests are getting high and getting laid. I can't picture her wasting valuable stone...
JOSH LANYON
Snowden said carefully, 'I've been unable to get in touch with the person I thought might know about...
JOSH LANYON
It’s more believable that a cop would get involved in solving these murders. I mean, you’re talk...
JOSH LANYON
I thought they expected you to be controversial at UCLA?”
“I believe the Board of Regents ...
JOSH LANYON
Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown afte...
JOSH LANYON
He was right. I knew the score. He’d never pretended it was other than it was--whatever the hell t...
JOSH LANYON
I’m never wrong? Who besides Republican presidents and evil masterminds can say that with a straig...
JOSH LANYON
A Pause followed my greeting.

Then, 'We're watching you,' whispered the voice on the oth...
JOSH LANYON
I know that asshole you were with in college --”
“Can we leave that asshole out of it?” JOSH LANYON
The moonlight streaming through the sheer draperies revealed Taylor smiling, boneless and peaceful i...
JOSH LANYON
There's an overemphasis on momentum, which hasn't been great, and that's obscuring what is the long-...
MARK LANYON
My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's ...
JOSH TURNER
I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been...
JOSH TURNER
My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and ...
JOSH TURNER
It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.
JOSH TURNER
I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.
JOSH TURNER
To think that my heart and my words and my music saved somebody's life, it takes a while to just...
JOSH TURNER
I've never had the patience of a teacher.
JOSH TURNER
Raising three boys is a huge responsibility for me, especially in this day and time when I look arou...
JOSH TURNER
When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But n...
JOSH TURNER
In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't wan...
JOSH TURNER
The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it ...
JOSH TURNER
One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. ...
JOSH TURNER
Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey that's slowing every...
JOSH TURNER
What I did to celebrate was I went home to my 535-square-foot apartment by myself and ate supper by ...
JOSH TURNER
I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I...
JOSH TURNER
I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by...
JOSH TURNER
We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wron...
JOSH TURNER
My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota F...
JOSH TURNER
I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no...
JOSH TURNER
I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules...
JOSH TURNER
I'm a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I've been through my dark tim...
JOSH TURNER
You have to take time and make time for each other. My current single 'Time Is Love' gives a...
JOSH TURNER
I'm thankful to have Jesus as my Savior. My relationship with God has always been one to where I...
JOSH TURNER
I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.
JOSH TURNER
Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source...
JOSH GAD
It's true to say that I'm a budding young actor. But I'd rather get my name out there be...
JOSH BOWMAN
Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these other...
JOSH MCDOWELL
My workout regimen at the moment is nonexistent. I wake up in the morning and brush my teeth. My too...
JOSH BOWMAN
Despite everything I've been through, despite being a kid with a spotty background, the Clevelan...
JOSH GORDON
I have let down many in Cleveland - my Browns teammates, our hard-working coaching staff, the team&#...
JOSH GORDON
I see myself in a Cleveland Browns uniform and a return for Josh Gordon. Hopefully this time, the bi...
JOSH GORDON
I'd love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some mar...
JOSH KEATON
When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said &...
JOSH MCDOWELL
Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help y...
JOSH MCDANIELS
I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than ...
JOSH GAD
It's just cool to me that Bon Jovi knows my name!
JOSH HOPKINS
Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.
JOSH BILLINGS
In life, I'd much rather have people laughing at me than booing me.
JOSH PECK
Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
JOSH BILLINGS
To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, t...
JOSH RADNOR
I always worked pretty steadily. But maybe out of some kind of fear, I put the brakes on letting mys...
JOSH PAIS
But I think what Liam said just kind of hit it spot on, that the people in the capital are brainwash...
JOSH HUTCHERSON
For me, in the third book, when Peeta gets brainwashed by the Capitol, that's going to be fun to...
JOSH HUTCHERSON
Boots, bushes, gardens, storefronts, buildings, streets, and stars. Why, she would have had to re-cr...
JOSH MALERMAN
Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind o...
JOSH HOMME
Really the topic of breakfast cereal is generally a very boring one.
JOSH HOMME
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety...
JOSH BILLINGS
If it wasn't for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any s...
JOSH BILLINGS
Just because you know stuff doesn't mean you are smart... You have to know how to use that informati...
JOSH KELLER
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
JOSH BILLINGS
The true genius of a Woman is her subtle flair in creating the illusion that you are the smart one
JOSH STERN
Dr. Suess said: 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened..'

I tell my dat...
JOSH STERN
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
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
JOSH JENKINS
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.
JOSH BILLINGS
The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable...
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
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
JOSH MCDOWELL
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.
JOSH BILLINGS
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgme...
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.
JOSH BILLINGS
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro...
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.
JOSH BILLINGS
The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, t...
JOSH BILLINGS
Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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.
JOSH BILLINGS
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
JOSH BILLINGS
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful t...
JOSH BILLINGS
There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy ...
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.
JOSH BILLINGS
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
JOSH BILLINGS
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am ...
JOSH BILLINGS
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
JOSH BILLINGS
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
JOSH BILLINGS
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
JOSH BILLINGS
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
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.
JOSH BILLINGS
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
JOSH BILLINGS
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
JOSH BILLINGS
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
JOSH BILLINGS
There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.
JOSH BILLINGS
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
JOSH BILLINGS
It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge...
JOSH BILLINGS
Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
JOSH BILLINGS
Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool
JOSH BILLINGS
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed
JOSH BILLINGS
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly en...
JOSH BILLINGS
Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
JOSH BILLINGS
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
JOSH BILLINGS
A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.
JOSH BILLINGS
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I ...
JOSH BILLINGS
The less we know the more we suspect.
JOSH BILLINGS
My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in...
JOSH BILLINGS
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
JOSH BILLINGS
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed ...
JOSH BILLINGS
The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.
JOSH BILLINGS
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy...
JOSH BILLINGS
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it ge...
JOSH BILLINGS
Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.
JOSH BILLINGS