“There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.”
Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Imagination
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“Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.”
Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Intelligence
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“As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.”
Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Family
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“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”
Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
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“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.”
Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wisdom
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“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.”
Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wisdom
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“The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.”
Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wisdom
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“The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so.”
Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Don’t take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.”
Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Control
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“Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.”
Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Science
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“Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.”
Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Common Sense
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“Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.”
Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Work
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“Some folks are wise and some otherwise.”
Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wisdom
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“It ain’t so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.”
Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wealth
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“There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?”
Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“To bring up a child in the way he should go — travel that way yourself.”
Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”
Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.”
Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Time
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“There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.”
Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.”
Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Brevity
