What did Josh Billings mean by: Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones. - Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. Feraz Zeid, June 16, 2023December 12, 2023, Josh Billings, Forgiveness, Revenge, Vengeance, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Fire, Laughing, Soul, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense. Feraz Zeid, July 21, 2023December 12, 2023, Josh Billings, Comedy, Common Sense, Genius, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Sentences, Writing, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. Feraz Zeid, September 6, 2023December 26, 2023, Josh Billings, Mistake, Wise, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Bad Day, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ The less we know the more we suspect Feraz Zeid, August 5, 2023December 12, 2023, Josh Billings, Reading, Suspects, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Anniversary, Keep Smiling, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. - Homer Poet · Greece