American - Comedian | April 21, 1818 - October 14, 1885
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.
Josh Billings
TimeI AmWorldEnoughLongLook
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
KnowledgeMoneyMoreLikeHeGets
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
ExperienceLearnEasyNothingHard
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
ManYouWillLordYourForgiven
The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.
GoodRoadRepairAlwaysPayRuin
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
PeopleAdviceOpinionsYouOwnCome
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
LivePersonNeverAnythingKnown
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
BetterKnowNothingThan
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
GoodHappinessFindKnowWayHole
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
FaithSafetyWorldLivingEatWould
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
FunWorldProfitFoolsLivingOut
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
TimeManEnoughYearsSufferNumb
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