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Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
Josh Billings
Men
Women
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
Josh Billings
Knowledge
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
Josh Billings
Feeling
Laughter
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings
Wisdom
Learning
Libraries
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
Life
Cards
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
Josh Billings
Life
Man
Ruin
Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
Josh Billings
Love
Blind
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings
Love
Envy
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh Billings
Love
God
Help
May
Smile
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
Josh Billings
Self
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
Josh Billings
Money
Pretty
Will
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
Josh Billings
God
People
Neighbors
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
Josh Billings
People
Advice
Opinions
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
Josh Billings
Disgrace
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings
Honesty
Wealth
World