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Josh Billings Quotes

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Rich Enjoy Poor Difference Suffer

Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.

Men Tradition Club Joke Out Almost

As evidenced during my failed audition, I'm a thorough introvert who would completely hate living in a 'Real World' house. I would have taken my Ikea comforter to the confessional room and never come out.

Hate World House Living Never Real

Once you are on court, it doesn't matter the way you look. It doesn't help you win points.

Win Help You Look Way Matter

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

Want Run Would Like Field Around

We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.

Douglas Coupland

Live Age Mental Illness Way Never

'The Mahabharata,' which inspired my novel 'Palace of Illusions,' also has many stories embedded within the main tale.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Palace Within Inspired Illusions

Country music's always had the best musicians in any format of music, and I always gravitated toward that, stuff that was musically interesting.

Music Best Musicians Interesting Any

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

People Believe Computers Understand

When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was surprised when the first novel I wrote was regarded as a funny novel.

Anthony Burgess

Funny Think Thought Serious First

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

Anne Bradstreet

Good God Men Iron Frame Cast

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

William Gilmore Simms

Progress Law Civilization True Race

I've struggled a lot with therapy because it's got a stigma to it, and also, it's really gotta work for you, I've found.

Work You Therapy Got Because Found

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