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Life Quotes by Josh Billings
- Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
- There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
- Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
- The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
- If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
- I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first…
- The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
- The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking…
- My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a…
- The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
- Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
- As in a game of cards, so in the game of life, we must play what is dealt to us, and the glory consists, not…
- Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
- Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer it goes with…
- Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of.
- There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins
- Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. --Josh Billings
- Health is like money, we never have a true idea of it's value till we loose it
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle