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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
Josh Billings
Will
The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
Josh Billings
People
Trouble
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
Josh Billings
Medicine
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
Josh Billings
Advice
Oil
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
Josh Billings
Man
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings
Love
Earth
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
Josh Billings
Happiness
A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
Josh Billings
Old
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
Hope
Judgment
Originality
Writer
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Josh Billings
Adversity
Effect
Fighting
Man
Training
Weight
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
Josh Billings
Family
Right
Woman
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings
Truth
Excess
Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
Josh Billings
Mother
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Josh Billings
Genius
Common sense
Instinct
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Josh Billings
Common sense