Quotes by Josh Billings
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
- Josh Billings
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
- Josh Billings
There’s lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven’t got time to enjoy it.
- Josh Billings
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
- Josh Billings
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
- Josh Billings
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
- Josh Billings
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
- Josh Billings
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
- Josh Billings
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Josh Billings
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
- Josh Billings
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
- Josh Billings
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
- Josh Billings
Genius after all ain’t anything more then elegant common sense.
- Josh Billings
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
- Josh Billings
Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can’t bear to have anyone else one.
~Josh Billings
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
- Josh Billings
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
- Josh Billings