The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. — Josh Billings Life Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't. — Josh Billings Can't change Copy Share Image
Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of… — Josh Billings Character Copy Share Image
Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail. — Josh Billings Animal Copy Share Image
The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that… — Josh Billings Age Copy Share Image
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change. — Josh Billings Change Copy Share Image
I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway. — Josh Billings Bulldog Copy Share Image
Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of. — Josh Billings Grindstone Copy Share Image
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to… — Josh Billings Advice Copy Share Image
Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome. — Josh Billings Doctor Copy Share Image
There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins — Josh Billings Life Copy Share Image
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue. — Josh Billings Brother Copy Share Image
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. — Josh Billings Charm Copy Share Image
The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. — Josh Billings Politeness Copy Share Image
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject — Josh Billings Fool Copy Share Image
There is not a whole lot of fun in medicine but there is a whole lot of medicine in fun. — Josh Billings Doctor Copy Share Image
It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his… — Josh Billings Character Copy Share Image
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe… — Josh Billings Happiness Copy Share Image
There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge. — Josh Billings Heart Copy Share Image
As in a game of cards, so in the game of life, we must play what is dealt to us, and the… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. — Josh Billings Ability Copy Share Image
A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. --Josh Billings — Josh Billings Football Copy Share Image
Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as… — Josh Billings Comedy Copy Share Image
Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
