Josh Billings quotes American humorist Born: 04/21/1818 Died: 10/14/1885 Country: usa

• A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. (Josh Billings)
• A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. (Josh Billings)
• A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates. (Josh Billings)
• About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. (Josh Billings)
• About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it. (Josh Billings)
• Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. (Josh Billings)
• Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. (Josh Billings)
• As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. (Josh Billings)
• As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. (Josh Billings)
• Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel. (Josh Billings)
• Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. (Josh Billings)
• Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. (Josh Billings)
• Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. (Josh Billings)
• Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. (Josh Billings)
• Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will rememer it. (Josh Billings)
• Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. (Josh Billings)
• Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. (Josh Billings)
• Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. (Josh Billings)
• Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. (Josh Billings)
• 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)
• 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)
• I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else. (Josh Billings)
• I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money. (Josh Billings)
• I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. (Josh Billings)
• If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. (Josh Billings)
• If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety. (Josh Billings)
• If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe o her own nose all the time. (Josh Billings)
• It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money. (Josh Billings)
• It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. (Josh Billings)
• It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so. (Josh Billings)
• It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit. (Josh Billings)

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