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Quotations of selected author

Josh Billings

1818-1885. True name Henry Wheeler Shaw, American humor writer.


1. "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."

categories: Forgiveness


2. "The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way."

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity


3. "Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."

categories: Oration and Silence


4. "Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Intellect, Judgement -:- Sin and Conscience


5. "Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it."

categories: Marriage


6. "Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."

categories: Envy -:- Love


7. "Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on what he is made of."

categories: Life and Death


8. "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."

categories: Life and Death



9. "In youth we run into difficulties, in old age, difficulties run into us."

categories: Youth and Age


10. "If you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither."

categories: Truth and Falsity


11. "If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time."

categories: Happiness


12. "I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words."

categories: Oration and Silence


13. "Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it."

categories: Health and Alcohol


14. "Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed."

categories: Manners and Ethics


15. "Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at."

categories: Sin and Conscience


16. "A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."

categories: Nature and Animals