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Josh Billings

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


— Josh Billings


#bit #god #help #honest #love

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


— Josh Billings


#gets #grease #loudest #wheel

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.


— Josh Billings


#best time #bust #feel #hold #must

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.


— Josh Billings


#every #every man #follies #got #his

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


— Josh Billings


#fools #kinds #opinions #their #those

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.


— Josh Billings


#anything #common #common sense #elegant #genius

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


— Josh Billings


#envy #looks #microscope #telescope #through

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.


— Josh Billings


#common sense #doing #done #knack #ought

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.


— Josh Billings


#gain #greatest #him #over #politeness

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.


— Josh Billings


#general #good #pants #right #she






About Josh Billings

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Did you know about Josh Billings?

The poem is:
I hate to be a kicker
I always long for peace
But the wheel that does the squeaking
Is the one that gets the grease. to wit the wag of a dog's tail" appears at the beginning of the Disney film Lady and the Tramp.

Josh Billings was the pen name of 19th century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw (21 April 1818 – 14 October 1885).

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