Josh Billings Quotes
- Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
- Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
- There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
- There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
- There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
- Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
- Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
- There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
- Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
- The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
- There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
- The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
- Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
- One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
- Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
- Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
- Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
- Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.