Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.
– Josh Billings
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
– Josh Billings
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tip toe.
– Josh Billings
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
– Josh Billings
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
– Josh Billings
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
– Josh Billings
Science is the literature of truth.
– Josh Billings
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
– Josh Billings
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
– Josh Billings
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
– Josh Billings
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
– Josh Billings
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
– Josh Billings
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
– Josh Billings
The trouble with people is not that they don’t know but that they know so much that ain’t so.
– Josh Billings
Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.
– Josh Billings
I don’t never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks’ straight is what bothers me.
– Josh Billings
Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can’t bear to have anyone else one.
– Josh Billings
Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
– Josh Billings
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
– Josh Billings
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
– Josh Billings