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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Josh Billings

Home

Being

Horror

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

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

Josh Billings

Fool

Wrong

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

Josh Billings

Change

Opinions

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.

Josh Billings

Life

Twins

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Josh Billings

Intelligence

Nothing

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

Forgiveness

Revenge

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Josh Billings

Experience

Nothing

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Josh Billings

People

Trouble

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

Josh Billings

Time

Money

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Josh Billings

Travel

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

Josh Billings

Advice

Man

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Josh Billings

Wisdom

Learning