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There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it. — Josh Billings

Poverty is the step-mother of genius. — Josh Billings

Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome. — Josh Billings

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices. — Josh Billings

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. — Josh Billings

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. — Josh Billings

When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion. — Josh Billings

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow. — Josh Billings

You cannot analyze a kiss any more than you can dissect the fragrance of flowers. — Josh Billings

There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge. — 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

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates. — Josh Billings

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. — Josh Billings

Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince. — Josh Billings

Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor. — Josh Billings

Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them. — Josh Billings

Doesn't know much, but leads the league in nostril hair. — Josh Billings

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with. — Josh Billings

It is inactivity which makes the growler's paradise. — John Davis Billings

Faith is the soul riding at anchor. — Josh Billings

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. — Josh Billings

If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning. — Josh Billings

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

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent. — Josh Billings

Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick. — Josh Billings

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise. — Josh Billings

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply — Josh Billings

It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat. — Josh Billings

Remember the poor, it costs nothing. — Josh Billings

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment. — Josh Billings

Josh Billings wrote, "It's not what a man knows that hurts him; it's what he knows that isn't true. — Brian Tracy

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do. — Josh Billings

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are. — Josh Billings

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so. — Josh Billings

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity. — Josh Billings

The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition. — Josh Billings

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else. — Josh Billings

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over. — Josh Billings

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money. — Josh Billings

There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister. — Josh Billings

It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so. — Josh Billings

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so. — Josh Billings

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something. — Josh Billings

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"
babbling gossips of the air. — Josh Billings

The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord. — Josh Billings

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice. — Josh Billings

Method is the arithmetic of success. — Josh Billings

Jealousy is one of love's parasites. — Josh Billings

Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them. — Josh Billings

Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths. — Josh Billings

[Science is] the literature of truth. — Josh Billings

If animals had reason, they would act just as ridiculous as we menfolks do. — Josh Billings

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. — Josh Billings

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies. — Josh Billings

Josh Billings once wrote, It ain't what a man knows what hurts him. It's what he knows what ain't true. — Brian Tracy

Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin. — Josh Billings

Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger. — Josh Billings

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it. — Josh Billings

Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them. — Josh Billings

Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into. — Josh Billings

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

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other. — Josh Billings

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. — Josh Billings

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 greatest obstacle. — Josh Billings

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned. — Josh Billings

It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich. — Josh Billings

There is not a whole lot of fun in medicine but there is a whole lot of medicine in fun. — Josh Billings

Pedantry is paraded knowledge. — 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

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. — Josh Billings

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments. — Josh Billings

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled. — Josh Billings

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

The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is. — Josh Billings

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. — Josh Billings

People travel to learn; most of them before they start should learn to travel. — Josh Billings

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground. — Josh Billings

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large. — Josh Billings

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is. — Josh Billings

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it. — Josh Billings

Fun is a sugar-coated physic. — Josh Billings

Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves. — Josh Billings

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it. — Josh Billings

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. — Josh Billings

Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet. — Josh Billings

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust — Josh Billings

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway. — Josh Billings

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel. — Josh Billings

Silence never makes any blunders. — Josh Billings

Sekts and creeds ov religion, are like pocket compesses, good enuff tu pinte out the direction, but the nearer the pole yu git thewuss tha wurk. — Josh Billings

There's one good thing about tight shoes; they make you forget your other troubles. — Josh Billings

There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards? — Josh Billings

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. — Josh Billings

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined. — 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

Let tyrants shake their iron rod. — William Billings

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven — Josh Billings

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

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

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will. — Josh Billings