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Josh Billings Quotes

«If a man is too right he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative»
«Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so»
«I've never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | About: Knowledge
«There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: gravity
«It isn't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.»
«When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.»
«I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | About: World | Keywords: second time
«The wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous to reach heaven»
«Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and four times he who gets his fist in fust»
«There may come a time when the lion and the lamb will lie down together, but I am still betting on the lion»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: betting