Quotes By 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
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
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Josh Billings
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
Josh Billings
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
Josh Billings
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
Josh Billings
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
Josh Billings
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
Josh Billings
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
Josh Billings
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
Josh Billings
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh Billings
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
Josh Billings