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Josh Billings Quotes - Page 7

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Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.

Work, Heart, Soul

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

Cost, Pity

Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.164

Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.

Fire, Laughing, Soul

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

Wise, Men, Profit

I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that gets the grease.

Hate, Long, Grease

"The Kicker" (ca. 1870).This citation is traditional among quotation dictionaries, but it must be noted that no Billings poem called "The Kicker" or with words like these has ever been veri?ed.The earliest documented version appears in the Wall Street Journal, 20 May 1910: "The wheel that squeaks the loudest / Is the wheel that gets the grease." The saying is now proverbial, often with a form like "the squeaky wheel gets the grease."

It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.

Men, Fit, Virtue

Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.

Funny, Dog, Children

Perseverance is king.

Perseverance, Kings

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.

Ignorance, Nurse, Prejudice

Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Dog, Play, Pups

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

Contentment, Useless, Show Me

We should make virtue our master, not our servant.

Virtue, Should, Masters

Josh Billings (1870). “Josh Billings on Ice, and Other Things”, p.144

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

Honesty, Ethics, Wealth

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.

Thinking, Innocence, Innocent

Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.

Titles, Would Be, Rubbish

People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.

Loss, Talking, People

It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.

Succeed, Obstacles, Knows

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

Doors, House, Prejudice

If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.

Deceit, Would Be, Problem

Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.

Oil, Advice, Easy

The soul has more diseases than the body.

Soul, Body, Disease

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

Fool, Belief, Incredulity

Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way.

Half, Way, Half Sister

It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.

Ignorance, Doe, Damage

Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

Metaphysics, Prove

Josh Billings (1953). “Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh”

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