Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway. — Josh Billings Cracks 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
There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity. — Josh Billings Gravity Copy Share Image
There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel… — Josh Billings Depends 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
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
I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the… — Josh Billings Folks Copy Share Image
One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden. — Josh Billings Chickens Copy Share Image
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. — Josh Billings Advice 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
It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it. — Josh Billings Art Copy Share Image
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
Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity. — Josh Billings Chastity 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
Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as… — Josh Billings Genuine Copy Share Image
Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them. — Josh Billings Husband Copy Share Image
The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large. — Josh Billings Funny Copy Share Image
Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition. — Josh Billings Disposition Copy Share Image
The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the… — Josh Billings Exalted Copy Share Image