A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. — Josh Billings Fit Copy Share Image
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better. — Josh Billings Easier Copy Share Image
A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome. — Josh Billings Being wise Copy Share Image
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies. — Josh Billings Experience Copy Share Image
Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner. — Josh Billings Aging Copy Share Image
Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something. — Josh Billings Influence Copy Share Image
Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. — Josh Billings Dollars Copy Share Image
Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you. — Josh Billings Coquette Copy Share Image
There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister. — Josh Billings Endearment Copy Share Image
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. — Josh Billings Evidence Copy Share Image
When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion. — Josh Billings Hills Copy Share Image
I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that… — Josh Billings Doe Copy Share Image
Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks. — Josh Billings Doors Copy Share Image
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. — Josh Billings Exaggeration Copy Share Image
Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer. — Josh Billings Enough Copy Share Image
Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air. — Josh Billings Air 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
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.… — Josh Billings Famous Copy Share Image
The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do. — Josh Billings Fool Copy Share Image
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed — Josh Billings Wisdom Copy Share Image
It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so. — Josh Billings Damage Copy Share Image
Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them. — Josh Billings Absence Copy Share Image
If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven? — Josh Billings Despise Copy Share Image
Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have. — Josh Billings Happiness Copy Share Image
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can. — Josh Billings Greatness Copy Share Image
Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer. — Josh Billings Choices Copy Share Image
Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions. — Josh Billings Action Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand. — Josh Billings Learning Copy Share Image
A wise man never enjoys himself so much, nor a fool so little, as when alone. — Josh Billings Enjoy Copy Share Image
Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin. — Josh Billings Assuming Copy Share Image
Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first. — Josh Billings Beast Copy Share Image
Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take. — Josh Billings Advice Copy Share Image
