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Josh Billings Quotes about Happiness

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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Josh Billings
Happiness, Happy, Dog

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Josh Billings
Funny, Happiness, Happy

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

Josh Billings
Happiness, Smile, Laughter

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Josh Billings
Funny, Happiness, Business
"Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh".

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

Josh Billings
Happiness, Hunting, Skeletons

The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.

Josh Billings
Happiness, Perfect, Belief

Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.

Josh Billings
Happiness, Want, Humans
Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.154

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Josh Billings
Happiness, Way, Fit

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.

Josh Billings
Happiness, Laughter, Hands

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