Josh Billings Quotes

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it... view

By: Josh Billings

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven.. view

By: Josh Billings

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done... view

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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius... view

By: Josh Billings

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there... view

By: Josh Billings

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel... view

By: Josh Billings

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand... view

By: Josh Billings

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them... view

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight... view

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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment... view

By: Josh Billings

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates... view

By: Josh Billings

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug... view

By: Josh Billings

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself... view

By: Josh Billings

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got... view

By: Josh Billings

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take... view

By: Josh Billings

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout... view

By: Josh Billings

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease... view

By: Josh Billings

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so... view

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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear... view

By: Josh Billings

Don't ever prophesy.. view

By: Josh Billings

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm... view

By: Josh Billings

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness.. view

By: Josh Billings

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust... view

By: Josh Billings

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

By: Josh Billings

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit... view

By: Josh Billings

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute... view

By: Josh Billings

Remember the poor, it costs nothing... view

By: Josh Billings

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does... view

By: Josh Billings

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can... view

By: Josh Billings

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness... view

By: Josh Billings

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return... view

By: Josh Billings

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together... view

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Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words... view

By: Josh Billings

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something... view

By: Josh Billings

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has... view

By: Josh Billings

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him... view

By: Josh Billings

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

By: Josh Billings

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go... view

By: Josh Billings

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

By: Josh Billings

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it... view

By: Josh Billings

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them... view

By: Josh Billings

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply... view

By: Josh Billings