A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins. — Josh Billings Life Copy Share Image
True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does. — Josh Billings Courage Copy Share Image
The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple. — Josh Billings Authorship Copy Share Image
It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. — Josh Billings Conversation Copy Share Image
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to… — Josh Billings Adversity Copy Share Image
Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in,… — Josh Billings Advantage Copy Share Image
Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals. — Josh Billings Character Copy Share Image
Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do. — Josh Billings Advice Copy Share Image
You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates. — Josh Billings Animal Copy Share Image
