Quote #96
Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on what he is made of.
More from Josh Billings
- Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
- Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
- Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
- It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool; it's the things he does know, that ain't so.
- Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since.
- In youth we run into difficulties, in old age, difficulties run into us.
- Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.