What did Josh Billings mean by: Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner. - Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ People travel to learn; most of them before they start should learn to travel. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Josh Billings, Travel, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don’t attempt to live in them. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Air, Business, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Shame is the dying embers of virtue. Feraz Zeid, November 1, 2023December 26, 2023, Josh Billings, Dying, Shame, Virtue, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Choices, Opportunity, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts. Feraz Zeid, June 2, 2023December 12, 2023, Josh Billings, Peace, Shadow, Virtue, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Josh Billings, Art, Superiors, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Fit, Happiness, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Josh Billings, Return, 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
