One of the best temporary cures for pride and …– Josh Billings
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
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