Josh Billings Quotes

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

Best, Pride, Wants

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.
Josh Billings

Good, Road, Pay

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

Experience, Nothing, Hard

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
Josh Billings

Time, Enough, Wants

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
Josh Billings

Time, Money, Less

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

Travel, Yourself, Child

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
Josh Billings

Words, Often, Idea

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

Good, Hope, Achieve

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
Josh Billings

Enjoy, Rich, Poor

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
Josh Billings

Forget, Remember, Wrong

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

Time, Long, Enough

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

Money, Next, Impudence

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Josh Billings

Age, Good, Home

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

Happen, Enjoy, Die

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
Josh Billings

Faith, Living, Eat

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

Money, Often, Reputation

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
Josh Billings

Job, Him, Forgive

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Josh Billings

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

Self, Difficult

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
Josh Billings

Money, Knowledge, Craves

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
Josh Billings

Ourselves, Disgrace

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Josh Billings

Old, Tea, Scandal

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
Josh Billings

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Josh Billings

Mistakes, Reason, Often

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
Josh Billings

Nothing, Remember, Poor

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: April 12, 1818

Died: October 14, 1885

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