Josh Billings Quotes

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

The trouble with people is not that they don’t know but that they know so much that ain’t so.
- Josh Billings

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

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

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

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
- Josh Billings

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

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

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

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

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

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

Science is the literature of truth.
- 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

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

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

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
- Josh Billings

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

Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.
- Josh Billings

I don’t never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks’ straight is what bothers me.
- Josh Billings

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

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

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

Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since.
- Josh Billings

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

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