Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.
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Josh Billings
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About Josh Billings
Henry Wheeler Shaw, better known by the pen name Josh Billings, was a 19th-century American humorist and lecturer.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Josh BillingsWisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.