The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned. — Josh Billings Conditions Copy Share Image
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. — Josh Billings Charm Copy Share Image
Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on… — Josh Billings Crow Copy Share Image
Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue. — Josh Billings Brother Copy Share Image
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. — Josh Billings Enjoy 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
Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled. — Josh Billings Climbing Copy Share Image
When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return. — Josh Billings Extras Copy Share Image
The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment. — Josh Billings Greatness Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't. — Josh Billings Can't change 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
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. — Josh Billings Delicate Copy Share Image
The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that… — Josh Billings Age Copy Share Image
In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail. — Josh Billings Animal Copy Share Image
Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of… — Josh Billings Certain Copy Share Image
Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of. — Josh Billings Debt Copy Share Image
Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of… — Josh Billings Character Copy Share Image
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. — Josh Billings Confess Copy Share Image
Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground. — Josh Billings Experience 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 hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise… — Josh Billings Can do Copy Share Image
Pride seems to be equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem to have it… — Josh Billings Carriages Copy Share Image
The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion… — Josh Billings Lamb Copy Share Image
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. — Josh Billings Adversity Copy Share Image
The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it. — Josh Billings Belief Copy Share Image
A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it. — Josh Billings Blow Copy Share Image
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of… — Josh Billings Inspiration Copy Share Image
Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream. — Josh Billings Contrary Copy Share Image
There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying. — Josh Billings Comedy Copy Share Image
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy… — Josh Billings Enjoy Copy Share Image
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust — Josh Billings Blow Copy Share Image
The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other. — Josh Billings Adapted Copy Share Image
Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts… — Josh Billings Blind Copy Share Image
If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it… — Josh Billings Ability Copy Share Image
It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a… — Josh Billings Bits Copy Share Image
Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody. — Josh Billings Advice Copy Share Image
The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so. — Josh Billings Folks Copy Share Image
Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is… — Josh Billings Chance Copy Share Image
Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the… — Josh Billings Argument Copy Share Image
When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes. — Josh Billings Clothes Copy Share Image
