User:Magnoliasouth/draft Josh Billings Deleted Quotes

The following were deleted quotes from the Josh Billings Wikipedia page. Besides the fact that they were unsourced, which is no longer allowed, they actually belong under the Josh Billings' Wikiquote page instead. I removed the unsourced material, alphabetized the quotes for easier reference and posted them here. This is in case anyone finds sources for the quotes. They can be removed from here and posted on the Wikiquote page.

• A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

• About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

• As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

• Don't have any more secrets than you can keep yourself.

• Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.

• Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

• Friendship is liken earthenware, once broken it can be mended. Love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.

• Genius ain’t nothing more than elegant common sense

• Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

• I have finally come to the conclusion that a good set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.

• I wud as soon take a ten dollar kounterfit bill on the Kodfish Bank ov Nufoundland, as tu marry a woman with false hare, false teeth or a false buzzum.

• It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit.

• It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowing so darned much that ain't so.

• It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.

• Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

• Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

• Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.

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

• Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

• Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

• Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.

• One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden.

• One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

• Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

• That, men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

• The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

• The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

• The trouble with people is not that they don't know, but that they know so much that ain't so.

• There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

• There may come a time when the lion and the lamb will lie down together, but I am still betting on the lion.