Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can. — Josh Billings Greatness Copy Share Image
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. — Josh Billings Health Copy Share Image
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. — Josh Billings Funny Copy Share Image
We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves. — Josh Billings Community Copy Share Image
The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are. — Josh Billings Innocence Copy Share Image
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. — Josh Billings Conversation Copy Share Image
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn. — Josh Billings Attention Copy Share Image
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence. — Josh Billings Arrogance Copy Share Image
I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now,… — Josh Billings Cat Copy Share Image
We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer. — Josh Billings Choices Copy Share Image
He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero. — Josh Billings Adversity Copy Share Image
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. — Josh Billings Buzzards Copy Share Image
Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if thare want ennything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of… — Josh Billings Character Copy Share Image
The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of… — Josh Billings Business Copy Share Image
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. — Josh Billings Comedy Copy Share Image
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Sekts and creeds ov religion, are like pocket compesses, good enuff tu pinte out the direction, but the nearer the pole yu… — Josh Billings Creeds Copy Share Image
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. — Josh Billings Fools 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 Copy Share Image
Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent. — Josh Billings Age Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t. — Josh Billings Fools Copy Share Image
Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. — Josh Billings Angel 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
“Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.” — Josh Billings Blunders 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 Copy Share Image
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. — Josh Billings Stamp Copy Share Image
Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall. They never fail to rise again. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. — Josh Billings Family Copy Share Image
