Josh Billings Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Josh Billings
Josh Billings Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.
There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it.
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.
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.
Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.
When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness
when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.
when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.
Pride seems to be equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem to have it just alike.
The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.
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.
The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.
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.
There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.
It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.
There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.
There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.
Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.