I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce… — Josh Billings Men Copy Share Image
Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into. — Josh Billings Advice Copy Share Image
As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to… — Josh Billings Adversity Copy Share Image
I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me. — Josh Billings Bother Copy Share Image
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has bin getting a little lower ever since. — 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 Enjoy Copy Share Image
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 things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins — Josh Billings Life Copy Share Image
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear. — Josh Billings Anxious Copy Share Image
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. — Josh Billings Accidents 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
Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel. — Josh Billings Be kind Copy Share Image
Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or… — Josh Billings Children Copy Share Image
There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to… — Josh Billings Enjoy Copy Share Image
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. — Josh Billings Dog Copy Share Image