What did Josh Billings mean by: We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences. Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail. Read explanation Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Connection, Happiness, Wealth, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Critique, Intelligence, Knowledge, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so. Read explanation Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Budgeting, Debt, Financial responsibility, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Connection, Escape, Society, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend. Author, August 20, 2023January 2, 2025, Josh Billings, Conflict, Relationships, Strength, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Stupidity,–unconscious ignorance. Author, August 17, 2023January 2, 2025, Josh Billings, Ignorance, Stupidity, Unawareness, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ It ain’t often that a man’s reputation outlasts his money. Author, October 21, 2023January 2, 2025, Josh Billings, Legacy, Money, Reputation, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Author, August 31, 2023January 2, 2025, Josh Billings, Communication, Debate, Power, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
