Josh Billings Quotes
+27A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
- Josh Billings
+26Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
- Josh Billings
+3The trouble with people is not that they don’t know but that they know so much that ain’t so.
- Josh Billings
+2Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.
- Josh Billings
+1There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.
- Josh Billings
+1The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
- Josh Billings
+1There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
- Josh Billings
+1When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
- Josh Billings
+1Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tip toe.
- Josh Billings
+1As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
- Josh Billings
+1Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings
+1Science is the literature of truth.
- Josh Billings
+1If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
- Josh Billings
+1Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
- Josh Billings
+1To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
- Josh Billings
+1As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
- Josh Billings
+1Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
- Josh Billings
+1Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.
- Josh Billings
+1I don’t never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks’ straight is what bothers me.
- Josh Billings
+1Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can’t bear to have anyone else one.
- Josh Billings
+1Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
- Josh Billings
+1There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can’t tell the truth without lying.
- Josh Billings
+1Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since.
- Josh Billings
+1There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Josh Billings
+1There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.
- Josh Billings
+1Honesty 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
+1When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
- Josh Billings
+1Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
- Josh Billings
+1It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can’t dodge a fly.
- Josh Billings
+1One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
- Josh Billings
+1If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
- Josh Billings
0Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves.
- Josh Billings
0Life is short, but it’s long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
- Josh Billings
-4Love is like the measles; we cant have it bad but oust, and the later in life we have it the tuffer it goes with us.
- Josh Billings
