Josh Billings – Page 2

A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay. – Josh Billings

Theres lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they havent got time to enjoy it. – Josh Billings

Poverty is the step-mother of genius. – Josh Billings

Remember the poor, it costs nothing. – Josh Billings

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. – Josh Billings

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. – Josh Billings

To bring up a child in the way he should go — travel that way yourself. – Josh Billings

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. – Josh Billings

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

Experience increases our wisdom but doesnt reduce our follies. – Josh Billings

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

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. – Josh Billings

Its not only the most difficult thing to know ones self, but the most inconvenient. – Josh Billings

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. – Josh Billings

It is better to know nothing than to know what aint so. – Josh Billings

Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they aint got. – Josh Billings

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world aint lawful tender for a loaf of bread. – Josh Billings

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they cant tell the truth without lying. – Josh Billings

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they aint so wicked as their neighbors. – Josh Billings

I havent got as much money as some folks, but Ive got as much impudence as any of them, and thats the next thing to money. – Josh Billings