truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 16 February 2007 9:01 am

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Josh Billings

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 16 February 2007 9:40 am

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully, the second time, into things that I am most certain of the first time.
Josh Billings

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 16 February 2007 9:41 am

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Josh Billings

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 16 February 2007 9:42 am

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.
Josh Billings

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 16 February 2007 9:43 am

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
Josh Billings

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 16 February 2007 9:44 am

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
Josh Billings

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
Josh Billings

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 16 February 2007 9:48 am

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings