What did Josh Billings mean by: There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. - Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Feraz Zeid, August 31, 2023December 26, 2023, Josh Billings, Anger, Communication, Parenting, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Cures, Pity, Sorrow, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Fortune is like a coquette; if you don’t run after her, she will run after you. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Josh Billings, Fortune, Running, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Practice, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ It’s not only the most difficult thing to know one’s self, but the most inconvenient. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Acceptance, Discovery, Funny, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Life is short, but it’s long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Funny, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Education, Funny, Witty, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Pedigree, Wealth, 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
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure. - Jean Kerr Playwright · USA
