Josh Billings Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

72 Famous Quotes by Josh Billings
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“About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.”
Art and artists Quotes
“Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.”
Bigotry Quotes
“There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.”
Birth Quotes
“Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.”
Borrowing Quotes
“There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.”
Brevity Quotes
“The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.”
Business Quotes
“Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.”
Common sense Quotes
“Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.”
Common sense Quotes
“Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Billings.”
Communication Quotes
“The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.”
Enemy Quotes
“Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.”
Experience Quotes
“Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.”
Experience Quotes
“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.”
Flattery Quotes
“The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.”
Flattery Quotes
“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.”
Forgiveness Quotes
“Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.”
Fraud Quotes
“The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.”
Glutton Quotes
“There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.”
Gravity Quotes
“My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.”
Life Quotes
“The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billings.”
Listening Quotes
“As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.”
Luck Quotes
“A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.”
Lying Quotes
“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.”
Marriage Quotes
“Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.”
Misery Quotes
“Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.”
Necessity Quotes