Quote #88
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
More from Josh Billings
- Don't despise your poor relations, they may become suddenly rich one day.
- Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
- Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
- I have finally come to the conclusion that a good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.
- Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.
- If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
- Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
- In youth we run into difficulties, in old age, difficulties run into us.