Josh Billings famous quotes

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
-- Josh Billings

#Inspirational #Funny #Motivational

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings

#Relationship #Jealousy #Hate

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings

#Inspirational #Life #Bad Day

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
-- Josh Billings

#Sarcastic #Sarcasm #Cost

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
-- Josh Billings

#Motivational #Health #Ideas

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

#Communication #Parenting #Insperational

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
-- Josh Billings

#Life #Positive #Inspiration

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

#Family #Dad #Children

Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.
-- Josh Billings

#Meaningful #Laughter #Soul

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

#Inspirational #Funny #Time

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

#Funny #Witty #Memories

[Science is] the literature of truth.
-- Josh Billings

#Science #Literature

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
-- Josh Billings

#Hate #Advice #Despise

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
-- Josh Billings

#Wise #Men #Doe

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
-- Josh Billings

#Happiness #Smile #Attitude

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
-- Josh Billings

#Inspirational #Smile #Anniversary

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
-- Josh Billings

#Forgiveness #Revenge #Vengeance

Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.
-- Josh Billings

#Opportunity #Occasions

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

#Lying #People #Comedy

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
-- Josh Billings

#Wise #Folks

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

#Worry #People #Sorrow

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
-- Josh Billings

#Love #Powerful #Want

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
-- Josh Billings

#Fall #Squash #Long

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
-- Josh Billings

#Common Sense #Genius #Comedy

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.
-- Josh Billings

#Wisdom #Truth #Honesty

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
-- Josh Billings

#Wisdom #Learning #Sleep

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
-- Josh Billings

#Two #Comedy #Twins

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

#Victory #Gains #Funny Business

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
-- Josh Billings

#Faith #Men #Comedy

Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.
-- Josh Billings

#Love #Sight #Machines

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

#Funny #Witty #Humorous

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

#Inspirational #Wrestling #Common Sense

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

#Life #Adversity #Fighting

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
-- Josh Billings

#People #Advice #Opinion

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.
-- Josh Billings

#Experience #Lucky #Grindstone

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
-- Josh Billings

#Mistake #Doe #Reason

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

#Honest #Originality #Judgment

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

#Funny #Witty #Educational

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

#Forgiveness #Jobs #Men

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
-- Josh Billings

#Believe

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
-- Josh Billings

#Tea #Maids #Scandal

Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.
-- Josh Billings

#Logic #Politeness #Convince

Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
-- Josh Billings

#Work #Procrastination #Today

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
-- Josh Billings

#Music #Trying #Firsts

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
-- Josh Billings

#Happiness #Happy #Dog

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
-- Josh Billings

#Dog #Tails #World

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
-- Josh Billings

#Food #Breakfast #Firsts

Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite
-- Josh Billings

#Ambition #Law #Hunger

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
-- Josh Billings

#Love #Workout #Sweetheart

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

#Fun #Fool #World

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

#Love #Friendship #Dog

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

#Dog #Play #Pups

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
-- Josh Billings

#Inspirational #Dog #Money

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

#Trust #Betrayal #Freedom

Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.
-- Josh Billings

#Dog #Children #Water

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
-- Josh Billings

#Inspirational #Wise #Silly

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
-- Josh Billings

#Time #Praying #Spots

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

#Family #Marriage #Pants

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

#Happiness #Happy #Hunting

A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.
-- Josh Billings

#Poor

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
-- Josh Billings

#Business #Grease #Complaining

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.
-- Josh Billings

#Inspirational #Fitness #Time

The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.
-- Josh Billings

#Art #Writing #Knowing

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
-- Josh Billings

#Change #Two #Fool

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

#Men #Comedy #Moral

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
-- Josh Billings

#Two #Buzzards #Stores

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.
-- Josh Billings

#Selfishness #Would Be #World

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.
-- Josh Billings

#Dog #Men #Kind

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has....
-- Josh Billings

#Made

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

#Men #Giving #Advice

It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.
-- Josh Billings

#Ignorance #Doe #Damage

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.
-- Josh Billings

#Learning #Science #Trouble

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
-- Josh Billings

#Men #Talking #Sublime

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
-- Josh Billings

#Remember #Forget #Forget It

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
-- Josh Billings

#Experience #Increase #Folly

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
-- Josh Billings

#Fool #Belief

Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
-- Josh Billings

#Letting Go #Tails #Bulls

The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.
-- Josh Billings

#Dog #Curse

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.
-- Josh Billings

#Wise #Men #Profit

Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
-- Josh Billings

#Cows #Milk

I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.
-- Josh Billings

#Lying #Funny Business

I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.
-- Josh Billings

#Entrepreneur #Looks #Used

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.
-- Josh Billings

#Blow #Firsts #Hornets

A wise man never enjoys himself so much, nor a fool so little, as when alone.
-- Josh Billings

#Wise #Men #Solitude

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
-- Josh Billings

#Wise #Men #Purpose

Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.
-- Josh Billings

#Fashion #Fool #Slave

People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.
-- Josh Billings

#Loss #Talking #People

The less we know the more we suspect
-- Josh Billings

#Reading

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
-- Josh Billings

#Silence #World #Golden

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.
-- Josh Billings

#Wise #Made

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
-- Josh Billings

#Life #Men #Years

There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.
-- Josh Billings

#Mother #Children #Infidelity

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
-- Josh Billings

#Cost #Pity

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.
-- Josh Billings

#Hypocrisy #Fool #Bears

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.
-- Josh Billings

#Wise #Men #Thinking

There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
-- Josh Billings

#Latin #Significant #Wit

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.
-- Josh Billings

#Fall #Rivers #Floating

A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.
-- Josh Billings

#Fool #Remembered

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
-- Josh Billings

#Men #Bait #Debt