Quotes By Josh Billings
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
Josh Billings
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
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
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
Josh Billings
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Josh Billings
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
Josh Billings
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
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
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
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings