One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. — Josh Billings Cures Copy Share Image
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. — Josh Billings Best way Copy Share Image
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to. — Josh Billings Advice Copy Share Image
A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all… — Josh Billings Dog Copy Share Image
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. — Josh Billings Excess Copy Share Image
“There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle,… — Josh Billings Angels Copy Share Image
I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it. — Josh Billings Emotion Copy Share Image
The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition. — Josh Billings Business Copy Share Image
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined. — Josh Billings Enough 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
Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them. — Josh Billings Bees 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 Bulldogs Copy Share Image
Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with. — Josh Billings Business Copy Share Image
And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together. — Josh Billings Bills Copy Share Image
Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled. — Josh Billings Cry Copy Share Image
We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do. — Josh Billings Advice Copy Share Image
Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one. — Josh Billings Bears Copy Share Image
Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for. — Josh Billings Funny Copy Share Image
Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple. — Josh Billings Authorship Copy Share Image
