3 December 2020 Josh Billings The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain’t gout.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings There are two kinds of fools: those who can’t change their opinions and those who won’t.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings 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.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
