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Famous Josh Billings Quotes
“Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.”
“The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.”
“I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.”
“Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised
“The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.”
“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.”
“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.”
Source: Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh
“Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.”
“It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.”
“It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.”
“The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.”
“Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.”
“The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.”
“Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.”
“Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.”
“It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.”
“It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.”
“It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.”
Source: Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor
“To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.”
Source: Josh Billings' Wit and Humor
“Suicide is cheating the doctor out of job.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day