Faith was given to man to lengthen out his reason.
¶ (Attributed)
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Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Politeness has won more victories than logic ever has.
¶ (Attributed)
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
¶ (Attributed)
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
¶ (Attributed)
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
¶ (Attributed)
Consider the postage stamp: Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
¶ (Attributed)
The best cure for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.
¶ (Attributed)
Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
¶ (Attributed)
What the moral army needs just now is more rank and file and fewer brigadier generals.
¶ (Attributed)
Education is a good thing generally, but most folks educate their prejudices.
¶ Everybody’s Friend, or Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor
The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
¶ Josh Billings' Encyclopedia of Wit and Wisdom (1874)
Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.
¶ Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)
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