There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins. — Josh Billings Life Copy Share Image
Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices. — Josh Billings Brag Copy Share Image
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. — Josh Billings Grease Copy Share Image
As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals. — Josh Billings Character Copy Share Image
Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince. — Josh Billings Convince Copy Share Image
Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at — Josh Billings Confess Copy Share Image
Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with. — Josh Billings Happiness Copy Share Image
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. --Josh Billings — Josh Billings Football Copy Share Image
Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as… — Josh Billings Comedy Copy Share Image
Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have… — Josh Billings Carriages Copy Share Image
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be… — Josh Billings Enough Copy Share Image
I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look… — Josh Billings Carriage Copy Share Image
Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it. — Josh Billings Broken Copy Share Image
It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our… — Josh Billings Greatest obstacles Copy Share Image
If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative. — Josh Billings Conservative Copy Share Image
It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all. — Josh Billings Addiction Copy Share Image
Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick. — Josh Billings Abstain Copy Share Image
It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so. — Josh Billings Doe Copy Share Image
As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither. — Josh Billings Believe Copy Share Image
Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor. — Josh Billings Doctor 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 Bulldog Copy Share Image
The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so. — Josh Billings Know Copy Share Image
Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change. — Josh Billings Change Copy Share Image
The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. — Josh Billings Pay Copy Share Image
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to… — Josh Billings Advice Copy Share Image
Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them. — Josh Billings Air Copy Share Image
Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of. — Josh Billings Grindstone Copy Share Image
Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way. — Josh Billings Can do 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
It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome. — Josh Billings Doctor Copy Share Image
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. — Josh Billings Awake Copy Share Image
Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough. — Josh Billings Enough Copy Share Image
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject — Josh Billings Fool Copy Share Image
It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to… — Josh Billings Asking Copy Share Image
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. — Josh Billings Politeness Copy Share Image
