Quote #3
A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided-it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.
More from Josh Billings
- It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
- Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.
- The wheel that squeaks the loudest Is the one that gets the grease.
- Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where …
- Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
- Nature never makes blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.
- I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
- As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.