Hamwey Billings Quotes

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

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

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will. ~ Josh Billings

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

Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout. ~ Josh Billings

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

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so. ~ Josh Billings

He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero. ~ Josh Billings

And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together. ~ Josh Billings

Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you. ~ 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

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

The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass. ~ Josh Billings

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. ~ Josh Billings

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

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

Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins. ~ Josh Billings

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

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool. ~ Josh Billings

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

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

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else. ~ 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

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

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes. ~ Josh Billings

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over. ~ Josh Billings

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

The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate. ~ Josh Billings

It is much the best way ... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time. ~ William Billings

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden. ~ Josh Billings

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. ~ Josh Billings

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

The great art of writing is knowing when to stop. ~ Josh Billings

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments. ~ Josh Billings

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