Quotes by Josh Billings - AI Generated Quotes

Josh Billings

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

-Josh Billings

age

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

-Josh Billings

best

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

-Josh Billings

best

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

-Josh Billings

best

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.

-Josh Billings

best

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

-Josh Billings

best

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

-Josh Billings

change

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

-Josh Billings

experience

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

-Josh Billings

faith

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

-Josh Billings

family

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

-Josh Billings

fear

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

fitness

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

-Josh Billings

forgiveness

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

-Josh Billings

funny

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

-Josh Billings

funny

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

-Josh Billings

funny

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

-Josh Billings

funny

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

-Josh Billings

god

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

god

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

-Josh Billings

good

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

-Josh Billings

good

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

-Josh Billings

happiness

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

-Josh Billings

happiness

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

health

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

-Josh Billings

home

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

-Josh Billings

hope

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

-Josh Billings

imagination

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

-Josh Billings

intelligence

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

-Josh Billings

intelligence

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

-Josh Billings

knowledge

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

-Josh Billings

learning

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

-Josh Billings

learning

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

-Josh Billings

life

Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.

-Josh Billings

love

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

-Josh Billings

love

Josh Billings

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

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.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

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.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

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.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

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