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Josh Billings - “One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.”
Josh Billings - “Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.”
Josh Billings - “Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.”
Josh Billings - “Genius ain't nothing more than elegant common sense.”
Josh Billings - “Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.”
Josh Billings - “The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.”
Josh Billings - “Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.”
Josh Billings - “The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.”
Josh Billings - “If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.”
Josh Billings - “The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.”
Josh Billings - “Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.”
Josh Billings - “A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.”
Josh Billings - “There are two kinds of fools those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.”
Josh Billings - “Remember the poor, it costs nothing.”
Josh Billings - “I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.”
Josh Billings - “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.”
Josh Billings - “I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.”
Josh Billings - “Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.”
Josh Billings - “Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.”
Josh Billings - “There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.”
Josh Billings - “Don't ever prophesy for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.”
Josh Billings - “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 next thing to money.”
Josh Billings - “The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.”
Josh Billings - “The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.”
Josh Billings - “To bring up a child in the way he should go - travel that way yourself.”
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