What did Josh Billings mean by: Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one. Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Comparison, Decline, Inferiority, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Folly, Trouble, Wickedness, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Family, Financial, Respect, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don’t attempt to live in them. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Boundaries, Imagination, Reality, 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
+ It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Difficulty, Health, Medicine, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Aging, Stubbornness, Wisdom, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. Read explanation Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Demand, Supply, Truth, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan’s deflation is another’s inflation. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
