Bites Quote by Josh Billings

“It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.”

Josh Billings

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It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often; it is because there is so much fun n the making up.

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Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

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There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.

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Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of.

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Its harly my dog A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

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Perseverance is king.

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Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.

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A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never…

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If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

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As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.

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Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

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Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

Mahatma Gandhi

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Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces, essential components. You have to - you know, at this point I'm so used to operating within given assumptions about art. But when you're explaining art to art students or people who are new to this…

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In every country dogges bite.

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I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for,

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While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you…

Anton Chekhov

The way to get through anything mentally painful is to take it a little at a time. The mind can't handle dealing with a massive iceberg of pain in front of it, but it can deal with short nuggets that will come to an end. So instead of thinking, Ugh, I've got twenty-four miles to go, focus on making it…

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Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when you write it down, and when you reread it and realise you were wrong. Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I…

Tony Benn

“If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.”

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Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only…

V. R. Krishna Iyer