#un

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#follow #knowledge #lame #practical #results

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. ↗

— Josh Billings

#imagination #lots #memory #mistake #people

With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#believed #crowd #down #during #father

You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#among #cannot #cities #fire #friends

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. ↗

— Josh Billings

#like #one thing #postage #stamp #stick

The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#canadian #different #least #run #running

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

— Josh Billings

#every #every man #follies #got #his

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. ↗

— Josh Billings

#cologne #flattery #like #swallowed #water

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. ↗

— Josh Billings

#dreadful #easy #enough #give #like

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. ↗

— Josh Billings

#great #great power #hitch #many #power