Josh Billings Quotes

It is the little things that fret and worry us you can dodge an elephant but not a fly.
Josh Billings
There are people who are always anticipating trouble and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.
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As scarce as truth is the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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When a man gets talking about himself he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
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Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself and then deliberately gets into.
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It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient too.
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It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too.
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man without lowering him in his estimation and yours too.
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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
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Be like a postage stamp-stick to one thing until you get there.
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A dog Is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
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Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
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To bring up a child in the way he should go travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man without lowering him in his estimation and yours too.
Josh Billings
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Josh Billings
Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself and then deliberately gets into.
Josh Billings
Be like a postage stamp-stick to one thing until you get there.
Josh Billings
A dog Is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
Josh Billings
Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
Josh Billings
To bring up a child in the way he should go travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings
Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.
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Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope.
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My advice to those who are about to begin in earnest the journey of life is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
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The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
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The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.
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Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing.
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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles safe on her nose all the time.
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Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.
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Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'.
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It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
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Nature never makes any blunders when she makes a fool she means it.
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As a general thing when a woman wears the pants in a family she has a good right to them.
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Faith is the soul riding at anchor.
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If it wasn't for faith there would be no living in this world we couldn't even eat hash with any safety.
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It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you do hold well.
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Marrying for love may be a bit risky but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting things he has got.
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The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
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When a man comes to me for advice I find out the kind of advice he wants and I give it to him.
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist - it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Josh Billings
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Josh Billings
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Josh Billings
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
Josh Billings
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings
Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
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Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
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There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.
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In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
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the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
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