Josh Billings Quotes

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings

Life, Good, Playing

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings

Pet, Love, Yourself

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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
Josh Billings

Until, Stick, Stamp

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Josh Billings

Funny, Memory, Mistake

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings

Forgiveness, Revenge, Complete

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings

Love, Envy, Through

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings

Silence, Hardest, Refute

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Josh Billings

Truth, Tell, Lying

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

Wisdom, Honesty, Anyone

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Josh Billings

Change, Two, Opinions

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh Billings

Marriage, Love, God

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Josh Billings

Wisdom, Wheel, Loudest

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings

Intelligence, Sense, Genius

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Josh Billings

Time, Best, Tongue

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Josh Billings

Greatest, Someone, Him

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
Josh Billings

Lord, Forgiven, Sins

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
Josh Billings

Funny, Often, Follies

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
Josh Billings

Funny, Water, Flattery

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
Josh Billings

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings

Wisdom, Learning, Awake

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Josh Billings

Him, Same, Training

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
Josh Billings

Family, Good, Woman

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Josh Billings

Done, Sense, Common

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
Josh Billings

Life, Two, Truly

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
Josh Billings

Give, Enough, Advice

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: April 12, 1818

Died: October 14, 1885

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