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Josh Billings Quotes

«Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | About: Flattery | Keywords: cologne, cologne water, flattery, smelt, smelted, smelts, swallowed
«As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | About: Luck | Keywords: attribute, bad luck, smartness
«There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: guard, guards, Latin, Latin Proverb, proverb, significant
«It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: ferment, fermented, forbid, forbidden fruit, juice, juices, juice up, mellow, mellows, ripening, rot, squash, squashed
«Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: boarding, come in handy, drowning, handier, Handy, or else, pond, ponds, Save the Children, the pond, water dog
«There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | About: Power, Words | Keywords: great power, hitch, hitched, hitches, hitching
«There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | About: Thought | Keywords: Twins
«Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer it goes with us»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | About: Life, Love | Keywords: Kant
«A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist)
«Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: rarer
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