Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.


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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, an...
JOSH BILLINGS
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawf...
JOSH BILLINGS
I think he was very ahead of his time in his thinking because he could see what we were doing to Mot...
ALICE BILLINGS
It went on for 15 years. It started out feeding 400 a week with supplemental food. It ended up feedi...
ALICE BILLINGS
He came in sixth. They only took the top three.
ALICE BILLINGS
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
JOSH BILLINGS
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours to...
JOSH BILLINGS
Our life contains a thousand springs,
And dies if one be gone.
Strange that a harp of thou...
WILLIAM BILLINGS
A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, better not strike at it
JOSH BILLINGS
Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once
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The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are
JOSH BILLINGS
In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worshi...
JOSH BILLINGS
Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughe...
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The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billin...
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
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Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Bill...
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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.
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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal
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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.
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There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
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Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
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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
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The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates
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Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if thare want ennything but contentment in his world, man w...
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for
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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up...
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