What did Josh Billings mean by: Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into. Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Contentment, Perspective, Uselessness, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. Read explanation Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Awareness, Knowledge, Wisdom, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ [Science is] the literature of truth. Author, June 17, 2023January 2, 2025, Josh Billings, Literature, Science, Truth, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,–to be intelligently simple. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Intelligence, Learning, Simplicity, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Clarity, Communication, Creativity, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Consolation, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Everyone who does the best he can is a hero. Author, July 9, 2023January 2, 2025, Josh Billings, Effort, Heroism, Personal Growth, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground. Read explanation Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Growth, Reflection, Resilience, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves. Read explanation François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful. Read explanation François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. François Rabelais Author · France
The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted. François Rabelais Author · France
