58 Quotes By Josh Billings


Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings on good

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 on happiness

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

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
Josh Billings on health

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

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings on hope

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Josh Billings on imagination

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings on intelligence

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh Billings on intelligence

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
Josh Billings on knowledge

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings on learning

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Josh Billings on learning

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings on life

Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings on love

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings on love

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh Billings on marriage

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
Josh Billings on money

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
Josh Billings on money

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
Josh Billings on money

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
Josh Billings on money