Billings Quotes

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout. ~ Josh Billings

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

Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway. ~ Josh Billings

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

It is inactivity which makes the growler's paradise. ~ John Davis Billings

Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once. ~ Josh Billings

I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words. ~ Josh Billings

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it. ~ Josh Billings

Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer. ~ Josh Billings

Poverty is the step-mother of genius. ~ Josh Billings

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice. ~ Josh Billings

I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it. ~ Josh Billings

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large. ~ 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

Men who have much to say use the fewest words. ~ Josh Billings

The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education. ~ John Shaw Billings

Clothes form the intellect of the dandy. ~ Josh Billings

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. ~ Josh Billings

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. ~ Josh Billings

Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing. ~ Josh Billings

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius ~ Josh Billings

Shame is the dying embers of virtue. ~ Josh Billings

Before we leave, we pick up the casings, bright red in the dull dead leaves. My cheek is also red. The next day a bruise will show. But for now it is hot, and I am happy, exhilarated, still quivering with the anticipation of something already passed. ~ Randon Billings Noble

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so. ~ 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

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so. ~ Josh Billings

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something. ~ Josh Billings

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

There is not a whole lot of fun in medicine but there is a whole lot of medicine in fun. ~ Josh Billings

Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them. ~ Josh Billings

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine. ~ Josh Billings

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

the squeeky wheel gets the grease. ~ Josh Billings

Let tyrants shake their iron rod. ~ William Billings

Josh Billings once wrote, It ain't what a man knows what hurts him. It's what he knows what ain't true. ~ Brian Tracy

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. ~ Josh Billings

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence. ~ Josh Billings

There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it. ~ Josh Billings

Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them. ~ Josh Billings

In the early 1830s the writer George Sand, a woman, had a man's overcoat and a pair of boots made for her so she could have the same pleasure - to walk the streets of Paris free to look at whatever she liked. In her autobiography she writes: "I can't express the pleasure my boots gave me ... With those little iron-shot heels, I was on solid pavement. I flew from one end of Paris to the other. It seemed to me that I could go round the world. And then, my clothes feared nothing. I ran out in every kind of weather, I came home at every sort of hour ... No one paid any attention to me, and no one guessed at my disguise ... No one knew me, no one looked at me, no one found fault with me; I was an atom lost in that immense crowd. ~ Randon Billings Noble

Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us. ~ Josh Billings

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time. ~ Josh Billings

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it. ~ Josh Billings

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

The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing. ~ Josh Billings

I shall begin a search for such a device, and if I have to go to the ends of the earth to find a trumpet for our young son, I shall find it at last and bring it home to Louis."
"Well, if I may make a suggestion," said his wife, "don't go to the ends of the earth, go to Billings, Montana. It's nearer. ~ E.B. White

Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail. ~ Josh Billings

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

In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note. ~ William Billings

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them. ~ Josh Billings

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. ~ Josh Billings

Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor. ~ Josh Billings

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. ~ Josh Billings

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. ~ Josh Billings

Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise. ~ Josh Billings

[Science is] the literature of truth. ~ Josh Billings

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into. ~ Josh Billings

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. ~ Josh Billings

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense ~ Josh Billings

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject ~ Josh Billings

If you need to improve your focus and learn to avoid distractions, take a moment to visualize, with as much detail as possible, what you are about to do. It is easier to know what's ahead when there's a well-rounded script inside your head. Companies say such tactics are important in all kinds of settings, including if you're applying for a job or deciding whom to hire. The candidates who tell stories are the ones every firm wants. "We look for people who describe their experiences as some kind of a narrative," Andy Billings, a vice president at the video game giant Electronic Arts, told me. "It's a tip-off that someone has an instinct for connecting the dots and understanding how the world works at a deeper level. That's who everyone tries to get." III. ~ Charles Duhigg

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

Fun is a sugar-coated physic. ~ Josh Billings

Truth is the edict of God. ~ Josh Billings

To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately. ~ Josh Billings

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. ~ Josh Billings

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent. ~ Josh Billings

There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree. ~ Josh Billings

Fostering cultural competence as conceived by Ladson-Billings (1994) is not problematic if mainstream U.S. culture reflects and resonates with students' cultural identities. In the instances in which students' cultural identities and mainstream U.S. culture are not in sync and students' cultural identities are marginalized, this cultural competence "uses student culture in order to maintain it [student culture] and to transcend the negative effects of the dominant culture" (Ladson-Billings 1994, p. 17). ~ Lisa Scherff

Sekts and creeds ov religion, are like pocket compesses, good enuff tu pinte out the direction, but the nearer the pole yu git thewuss tha wurk. ~ Josh Billings

When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road. ~ Josh Billings

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. ~ Josh Billings

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall. They never fail to rise again. ~ Josh Billings

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

Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access; but when they do want them, they want them badly. ~ John Shaw Billings

I seriously need a mentor. ~ M. Saylor Billings

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. ~ Josh Billings

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

Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer. ~ Josh Billings

Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it. ~ Josh Billings

The home of the homeless all over the earth. ~ Alfred Billings Street

This book is dedicated to the much needed establishing of greater unity in the wider body of Christ. It is dedicated to agreement with the prayer that Jesus prayed:

"I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one:"
John 17:20-22 NKJV ~ Andrew Billings

Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins. ~ Josh Billings

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. ~ Josh Billings

We should make virtue our master, not our servant. ~ Josh Billings

Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change. ~ Josh Billings

It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome. ~ Josh Billings

Perseverance is king. ~ Josh Billings

Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower. ~ Alfred Billings Street

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

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. ~ Josh Billings

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. ~ 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

The books are balanced in heaven, not here. ~ Josh Billings

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is ~ Josh Billings

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot. ~ Josh Billings

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven ~ Josh Billings

Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners. ~ Josh Billings

Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow. ~ Josh Billings

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is. ~ Josh Billings