“It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.”
Filter quotes by topic
Famous Josh Billings Quotes
“True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.”
“Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.”
“Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised
“Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.”
“One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.”
Source: Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh
“Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.”
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
“It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.”