Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled. — Josh Billings Cry Copy Share Image
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies. — Josh Billings Experience Copy Share Image
Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet. — Josh Billings Education Copy Share Image
Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years. — Josh Billings Admiration Copy Share Image
People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking. — Josh Billings Inspirational Copy Share Image
Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something. — Josh Billings Influence Copy Share Image
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of it's value till we loose it — Josh Billings Health Copy Share Image
The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground. — Josh Billings Experience Copy Share Image
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying. — Josh Billings Comedy Copy Share Image
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs. — Josh Billings Animal Copy Share Image
Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner. — Josh Billings Aging Copy Share Image
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of… — Josh Billings Inspiration Copy Share Image
A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it. — Josh Billings Belief Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is… — Josh Billings Chance Copy Share Image
The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody. — Josh Billings Advice Copy Share Image
If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it… — Josh Billings Ability Copy Share Image
It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts… — Josh Billings Blind Copy Share Image
The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. — Josh Billings Advice Copy Share Image
Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves. — Josh Billings Advice Copy Share Image
When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes. — Josh Billings Clothes Copy Share Image
Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the… — Josh Billings Argument Copy Share Image
The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment. — Josh Billings Greatness Copy Share Image
When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled. — Josh Billings Climbing Copy Share Image
And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
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