Quotes By Josh Billings
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Josh Billings
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
Josh Billings
There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
Josh Billings
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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
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
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
Josh Billings
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings