Josh Billings Quotes - Page 13

Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

When you do laugh, open your mouth wide enough for the noise to get out without squealing, throw your head back as though you were going to be shaved, hold on to your false hair with both hands and then laugh till your soul gets thoroughly rested.

It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often; it is because there is so much fun n the making up.

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

Faith is the soul riding at anchor.

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.

And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together.

Truth is the edict of God.

If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.

Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.

Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.

Clothes form the intellect of the dandy.

If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.