Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. – Josh Billings
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear. – Josh Billings
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. – Josh Billings
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety. – Josh Billings
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. – Josh Billings
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. – Josh Billings
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. – Josh Billings
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can. – Josh Billings
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. – 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 people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. – Josh Billings
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. – Josh Billings
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins. – Josh Billings
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. – Josh Billings
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. – Josh Billings
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. – Josh Billings
The wicked often work harder to go to hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. – Josh Billings
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. – Josh Billings
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. – Josh Billings
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. – Josh Billings
