Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe. — Josh Billings Distinction Copy Share Image
If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own. — Josh Billings Grievance Copy Share Image
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. — Josh Billings God Copy Share Image
Its harly my dog A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. — Josh Billings Animal Copy Share Image
There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in… — Josh Billings People 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
There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins — Josh Billings Life Copy Share Image
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. — Josh Billings 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 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
Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on… — Josh Billings 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 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
It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to… — Josh Billings 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
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 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 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way. — Josh Billings 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 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 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 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
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'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
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 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 Copy Share Image
As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither. — Josh Billings 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
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
A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge. — Josh Billings Heart Copy Share Image
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe… — Josh Billings Happiness Copy Share Image
