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Famous Josh Billings Quotes
“Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.”
“If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.”
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: Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor
“Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.”
Source: Josh Billings' Wit and Humor
“It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.”
“Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.”
Source: Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor
“It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.”
“Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.”
“True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.”
“A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.”
“It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.”
“Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.”
“Man isn't a fool for his ignorance, but rather for believing things that are wrong.”
“The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.”
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
“Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.”
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
“Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.”
“Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.”
“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
“It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.”
“I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.”
“I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.”
“When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.”
“Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.”
“Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.”
Source: Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor
“Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.”
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