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There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it.
— Josh Billings
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
— Josh Billings
Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
— Josh Billings
Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.
— Josh Billings
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
— Josh Billings
I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.
— Josh Billings
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
— Josh Billings
When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.
— Josh Billings
There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.
— 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
Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.
— Josh Billings
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
— Josh Billings
Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor.
— Josh Billings
Doesn't know much, but leads the league in nostril hair.
— Josh Billings
Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.
— Josh Billings
Faith is the soul riding at anchor.
— Josh Billings
If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.
— Josh Billings
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
— Josh Billings
Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.
— Josh Billings
Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"babbling gossips of the air. — Josh Billings
Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.
— Josh Billings
When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.
— Josh Billings
Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
— Josh Billings
The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.
— Josh Billings
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
Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.
— Josh Billings
The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
— Josh Billings
A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.
— Josh Billings
Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.
— Josh Billings
Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them.
— Josh Billings
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
— Josh Billings
Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.
— Josh Billings
The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.
— Josh Billings
Pride seems to be equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem to have it just alike.
— Josh Billings
Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.
— Josh Billings
Method is the arithmetic of success.
— Josh Billings
Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.
— Josh Billings
Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.
— Josh Billings
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[Science is] the literature of truth.
— Josh Billings
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
— Josh Billings
Josh Billings once wrote, It ain't what a man knows what hurts him. It's what he knows what ain't true.
— Brian Tracy
Caution, though very often wasted is a good risk to take.
— Josh Billings
Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.
— Josh Billings
Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.
— Josh Billings
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
— Josh Billings
Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.
— Josh Billings
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.
— Josh Billings
The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
— Josh Billings
There is not a whole lot of fun in medicine but there is a whole lot of medicine in fun.
— Josh Billings
Pedantry is paraded knowledge.
— Josh Billings
Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
— Josh Billings
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
— Josh Billings
Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.
— Josh Billings
Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.
— 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
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.
— Josh Billings
The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
— Josh Billings
Sekts and creeds ov religion, are like pocket compesses, good enuff tu pinte out the direction, but the nearer the pole yu git thewuss tha wurk.
— Josh Billings
Fun is a sugar-coated physic.
— Josh Billings
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.
— Josh Billings
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
— Josh Billings
Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet.
— Josh Billings
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust
— Josh Billings
I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.
— Josh Billings
Silence never makes any blunders.
— Josh Billings
The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.
— Josh Billings
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.
— Josh Billings
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
— 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
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
— Josh Billings
