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Josh Billings Quotes and Quotations
 Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist - it reduces him to his fighting weight. - Josh Billings | Adversity Quotes  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 | Advice Quotes The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it. - Josh Billings | Capitalism Quotes Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting things he has got. - Josh Billings | Character and Personality Quotes As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. - Josh Billings | Family and Ancestry Quotes Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it. - Josh Billings | Fools and Foolishness Quotes Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'. - Josh Billings | Goodness and Giving Quotes Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot. - Josh Billings | Humour and Humorists Quotes The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so. - Josh Billings | Ignorance Quotes The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are. - Josh Billings | Innocence Quotes My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other. - Josh Billings | Life Quotes Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder. - Josh Billings | Mistakes and Blunders Quotes To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. - Josh Billings | Parenthood Quotes There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. - Josh Billings | Quips and Comments Quotes It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his estimation, and yours too. - Josh Billings | Repentance and Apology Quotes It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. - Josh Billings | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. - Josh Billings | Speakers and Speeches Quotes As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. - Josh Billings | Truth Quotes Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog. - Josh Billings | Happiness Quotes If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her nose all the time. - Josh Billings | Happiness Quotes There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. - Josh Billings | Forgiveness Quotes Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. - Josh Billings | Forgiveness Quotes It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich. - Josh Billings | Forgiveness Quotes Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing. - Josh Billings | Helping Other People Quotes If it wasn't for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any safety. - Josh Billings | Faith and Unity Quotes Faith is the soul riding at anchor. - Josh Billings | Faith and Unity Quotes It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient, too. - Josh Billings | Self-Knowledge Quotes Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into. - Josh Billings | Self-Reliance Quotes Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into. - Josh Billings | Positive Quotes There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen. - Josh Billings | Worry Quotes It is the little things that fret and worry us; you can dodge an elephant, but not a fly. - Josh Billings | Worry Quotes Be like a postage stamp-stick to one thing until you get there. - Josh Billings | Perseverance Quotes It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is. - Josh Billings | Failures and Mistakes Quotes Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you do hold well. - Josh Billings | Events Quotes Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. - Josh Billings | Companionship Quotes Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope. - Josh Billings | Life Quotes A dog Is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. - Josh Billings | Peace Quotes Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail. - Josh Billings | Peace Quotes 
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