Quotes by Josh Billings

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

— Josh Billings

Love

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

— Josh Billings

Life

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

— Josh Billings

Wisdom

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

— Josh Billings

Wisdom

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

— Josh Billings

Wisdom

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

— Josh Billings

Wisdom

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

— Josh Billings

Truth

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

— Josh Billings

Life

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

— Josh Billings

Life

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

— Josh Billings

Wisdom

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

— Josh Billings

Happiness

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

— Josh Billings

Love

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

— Josh Billings

Wisdom

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

— Josh Billings

Wisdom

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

— Josh Billings

Courage

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

— Josh Billings

Wisdom

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

— Josh Billings

Wisdom

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

Truth

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

— Josh Billings

Wisdom

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

— Josh Billings

Wisdom

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

— Josh Billings

Wisdom

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

— Josh Billings

Wisdom

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

— Josh Billings

Wisdom

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

— Josh Billings

Wisdom