Best Quotes by Josh Billings (Top 10)
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
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Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
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Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
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More Josh Billings Quotes
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
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Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
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It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
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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.
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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.
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Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
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Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
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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.
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
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Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
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The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
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Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
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Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
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It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
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Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
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There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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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.
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
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There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
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My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
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The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.
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As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
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It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
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The less we know the more we suspect
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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
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Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
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There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
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There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so
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One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
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There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
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It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.
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Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.
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Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
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Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
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When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
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The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
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There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
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Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
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Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
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Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
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Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
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Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
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When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
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Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
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We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
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If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.
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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
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