Health is like munny, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. – 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. – Josh Billings
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. – Josh Billings
Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones. – Josh Billings
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. – Josh Billings
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. – Josh Billings
Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland. – Josh Billings
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. – Josh Billings
Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since. – Josh Billings
I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine. – Josh Billings
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. – Josh Billings
