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Josh Billings Quotes

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: April 21, 1818 - October 14, 1885

Topics

Life Money Man Making Money Moral

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.

Life Nature Name Friends Three Hand

Barcelona is one of the best cities in the world. I love it there. I love Big Sur. It's stunning and you get a therapeutic experience there. The drive up the coast is one of the most beautiful I've ever done. Also, Hong Kong. I could easily live there!

Love Live Beautiful Best Experience

The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed.

Christmas Been Genre Field

When we were kids, I remember we'd use lemon in our hair and go into the sun, hoping it would make us blond. Obviously, I have very dark hair and olive skin, and when I was a kid, I wanted to be blond, of course. It never worked.

Sun Hair Remember Dark Skin Go

Bach and Beethoven erected temples and churches on the heights. I only wanted to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.

Home Men Happy Feel Heights Build

'Nothing's Real' is about my first-ever panic attack, which I had about four months after getting my record deal.

Nothing Real Panic Attack Deal Four

My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.

Robert B. Laughlin

Work Job Back Well-Being My Own Own

But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that... I was worthy of being number one to a man.

Monica Lewinsky

Man Me Feel Enough Feelings See

The main character in the book is usually someone you're identifying with because the story is being told through this person's mind.

Character Mind Book Story Someone

I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.

Douglas Coupland

Good Sports Myself Smart College

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

Life Education Struggle School City

I'm one of the few lucky actors in the world. I've never waited tables. I never pumped gas. I've always earned a living. I never had to borrow from my parents. I was the first in our family to own a new car.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Family Car Parents World New Car

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