Inspirational Quotes by Josh Billings

Biography is the best form of history.

— Josh Billings

[Science is] the literature of truth.

— Josh Billings

Perseverance is king.

— Josh Billings

Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel.

— Josh Billings

I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.

— Josh Billings

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

— Josh Billings

Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.

— Josh Billings

Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

— Josh Billings

Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.

— Josh Billings

Doesn't know much, but leads the league in nostril hair.

— Josh Billings

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

— Josh Billings

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

— Josh Billings

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of…

— Josh Billings

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

— Josh Billings

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.

— Josh Billings

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

— Josh Billings

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his…

— Josh Billings

...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to…

— Josh Billings

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't…

— Josh Billings

Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.

— Josh Billings

Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.

— Josh Billings

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

— Josh Billings

Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.

— Josh Billings

The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.

— Josh Billings

The best creed we can have is charity toward the creeds of others.

— Josh Billings

Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.

— Josh Billings

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

— Josh Billings

People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.

— Josh Billings

Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.

— Josh Billings

Everyone who does the best he can is a hero.

— Josh Billings

It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.

— Josh Billings

Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.

— Josh Billings

It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.

— Josh Billings

A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.

— Josh Billings

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

— Josh Billings

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

— Josh Billings

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

— Josh Billings

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the…

— Josh Billings

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

— Josh Billings

There is not a whole lot of fun in medicine but there is a whole lot of medicine in fun.

— Josh Billings