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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
Josh Billings

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
Josh Billings

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Josh Billings

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Josh Billings

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
Josh Billings

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Josh Billings

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Josh Billings

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
Josh Billings

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh Billings

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings


There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Josh Billings

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Josh Billings

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
Josh Billings

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
Josh Billings

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
Josh Billings

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
Josh Billings

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Josh Billings

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
Josh Billings

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
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Biography
Type: Comedian
Nationality: American
Born: April 12, 1818
Died: October 14, 1885

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