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When you get something for nothing, you just haven’t been billed for it yet.

- Franklin P. Jones

The trouble with jogging is that by the time you realize you’re not in shape for it, it’s too far to walk back.

- Franklin P. Jones

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.

- Franklin P. Jones

The only problem with having nothing to do is you can’t stop and rest.

- Franklin P. Jones

Tact is the ability to stay in the middle without getting caught there.

- Franklin P. Jones

Patience often gets the credit that belongs to fatigue.

- Franklin P. Jones

One thing about experience is that when you don’t have very much you’re apt to get a lot.

- Franklin P. Jones

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody’s listening.

- Franklin P. Jones

Nothing produces such odd results as trying to get even.

- Franklin P. Jones

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing up, a sound set of values – and witnesses.

- Franklin P. Jones

Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwile.

- Franklin P. Jones

It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

- Franklin P. Jones

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

- Franklin P. Jones

He who hesitates is interrupted.

- Franklin P. Jones

Forgive your enemies if you can’t get back at them any other way.

- Franklin P. Jones

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

- Franklin P. Jones

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they’re going to catch you in next.

- Franklin P. Jones

Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.

- Franklin P. Jones

Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.

- Franklin P. Jones

An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.

- Franklin P. Jones

A bargain is something you can’t use at a price you can’t resist.

- Franklin P. Jones

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don’t want to discourage it completely.

- Franklin P. Jones

Sex is a two-way treat.

- Franklin P. Jones

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself.

- Josh Billings

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying.

- Josh Billings

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

- Josh Billings

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

- Mignon McLaughlin

Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.

- Mignon McLaughlin

Silence gives consent, or a horrible feeling that nobody’s listening.

- Franklin P. Jones

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

- Rumi