#con

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

— Josh Billings

#forgiven #laughed #lord #man #sins

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. ↗

— Josh Billings

#drop #economy #get #into #men

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

— Josh Billings

#best way #convince #fool #him #his

Women love a self-confident bald man. ↗

— Larry David

#love #man #self-confident #women

I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me. ↗

— Larry David

#cringe #did #ever #going #i

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. ↗

— Josh Billings

#carefully #certain #enough #first #first time

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. ↗

— Josh Billings

#does #makes #mistakes #never #often

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#conservatism #conserving #know #secondhand #their

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. ↗

— Angela Davis

#break #convert #dangerous #designed #each

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus. ↗

— D.T. Max

#consensus #grammar #life