[ josh billings Quotes ]
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
[ Animals ]
Josh Billings
19 votes
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
[ Happiness ]
Josh Billings
28 votes
A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
Josh Billings
10 votes
Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
[ Debt ]
Josh Billings
14 votes
As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.
[ Marriage ]
Josh Billings
28 votes
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
[ Success ]
Josh Billings
17 votes
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
[ Truth ]
Josh Billings
19 votes
Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
[ Mother-in-Laws ]
Josh Billings
12 votes
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
[ Common Sense ]
Josh Billings
29 votes
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
[ Pleasure ]
Josh Billings
29 votes
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
[ Control ]
Josh Billings
14 votes
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
[ Experience ]
Josh Billings
22 votes
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
[ Experience ]
Josh Billings
23 votes
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
[ Poverty and The Poor ]
Josh Billings
10 votes
I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
[ Speakers and Speaking ]
Josh Billings
18 votes
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
[ Age and Aging ]
Josh Billings
26 votes
I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
[ Knowledge ]
Josh Billings
18 votes
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
[ Age and Aging ]
Josh Billings
17 votes
Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
[ Incredulity ]
Josh Billings
8 votes
It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
[ Wealth ]
Josh Billings
17 votes
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
[ Self discovery ]
Josh Billings
14 votes
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
[ Life and Living ]
Josh Billings
21 votes
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
[ Life and Living ]
Josh Billings
18 votes
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
[ Men and Women ]
Josh Billings
20 votes
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
[ Repentance ]
Josh Billings
21 votes
Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
[ Music ]
Josh Billings
21 votes
Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.
[ Work ]
Josh Billings
24 votes
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
[ Quality ]
Josh Billings
21 votes
Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
[ Poverty and The Poor ]
Josh Billings
12 votes
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
[ Conscience ]
Josh Billings
29 votes
Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
[ Poverty and The Poor ]
Josh Billings
10 votes
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
[ Silence ]
Josh Billings
12 votes
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
[ Fools and Foolishness ]
Josh Billings
26 votes
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.
[ Medicine ]
Josh Billings