#man

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. ↗

— Josh Billings

#comes #find #give #him #i

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. ↗

— Josh Billings

#been #demand #excess #scarce #supply

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. ↗

— Josh Billings

#ever #find #happiness #her #hunting

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. ↗

— Josh Billings

#been #created #ever #getting #little

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb. ↗

— Josh Billings

#man #misery #must #numb #suffer

Women love a self-confident bald man. ↗

— Larry David

#love #man #self-confident #women

But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#humanity #philosophy #religion #change

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#germans #kant #quotations #shells #them

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. ↗

— Josh Billings

#enjoy #happen #himself #immediately #man

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. ↗

— Josh Billings

#estimation #forgive #him #his #job