Josh Billings Quotes

A collection of quotes by Josh Billings.

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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Forgiveness

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most inte

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

Funny

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Travel

Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some

Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.

Charles Dickens

Dad

Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some

Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.

Charles Dickens

Dad

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whe

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

Fear

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Money

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for t

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

Imagination Funny

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

Thankful

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole t

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Happiness

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those

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

Life Good

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achie

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Plagiarism

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when w

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Wealth

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reac

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

Evil

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before brea

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Work

To bring up a child in the way he should go -- travel that w

To bring up a child in the way he should go -- travel that way yourself.

Parenting

There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard

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

Caution

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefull

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.

Certainty

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red h

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.

Business

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than t

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Surprise