There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they cant tell the truth without lying. – Josh Billings
The wicked often work harder to go to hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. – Josh Billings
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they cant tell the truth without lying. – Josh Billings
The wicked often work harder to go to hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. – Josh Billings
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. – Josh Billings
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. – Josh Billings
Do not waste a minute, not a second, in trying to demonstrate to others the merit of your own performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it, but you can labor steadily on to something which needs no advocate but itself. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Letter to a Young Contributor,” The Atlantic Monthl