Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
- Josh Billings
Anger, Hardest, Refute, Argument
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
- Josh Billings
Love, Pet, More, Yourself
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
- Josh Billings
Funny, Words, Them, Great Power
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
- Josh Billings
Learning, Never, Made, Bigot
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
- Josh Billings
Most, Most Difficult Thing, Inconvenient
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
- Josh Billings
Thankful, Most, Repent, Wicked
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
Next, Some, Them, Impudence
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
- Josh Billings
Good, Over, Sensation, Principally
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
- Josh Billings
Wisdom, Wheel, Grease, Loudest
It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
- Josh Billings
Committed, Than, Repent, Intend
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
- Josh Billings
World, Living, Take, Profit
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
- Josh Billings
Give, Oil, Take, Dreadful
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
- Josh Billings
Short, Life Is Short, Wants, Ruined
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
- Josh Billings
Change, Opinions, Kinds, Fools
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
- Josh Billings
Die, Reach, Happen, Perfection
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
- Josh Billings
Fruit, Bad, Mellow, Squash
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
- Josh Billings
Intelligence, Genius, Common, Common Sense
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
Doing, Seeing, Knack, Common Sense
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
- Josh Billings
Genius, Common, Instinct, Common Sense
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
- Josh Billings
Tea, Old, Scandal, Maids
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
- Josh Billings
Enjoy, Happen, Always, Manage
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
- Josh Billings
Love, Marriage, Help, Marrying
The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.
- Josh Billings
Road, Repair, Always, Travellers
Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.
- Josh Billings
Men, Drop, Which, Pennies
Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
- Josh Billings
Her, Mother-In-Law, Some, Board
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
- Josh Billings
Truth, Always, Been, Scarce
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
- Josh Billings
Forgive, Delicate, Very, Yours
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
Wisdom, Wealth, Tender, Loaf
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
- Josh Billings
Wisdom, Sleeps, Wide Awake, Tiptoe
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
- Josh Billings
Things, Ever, Does, Rarest
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
- Josh Billings
Best, Temporary, Cures, Vomit
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
- Josh Billings
Adversity, Same, His, Severe
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
- Josh Billings
Intelligence, Than, Superior, Surprised
Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
- Josh Billings
Love, Blind, Some, Love Is
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
- Josh Billings
Like, Get, One Thing, Postage
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
Health, Fitness, Enjoy, So Much Time
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
- Josh Billings
Best, Tongue, Best Time, Bust
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
- Josh Billings
Money, More, Like, Craves
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
- Josh Billings
Money, Reputation, His, Outlast
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings
Love, Looks, Through, Microscope
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
- Josh Billings
Happiness, Hole, Fit, Bore
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
- Josh Billings
Funny, Flattery, Like, Swallowed
Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
- Josh Billings
Remember, Forget, Ever, Prophesy
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
- Josh Billings
Fear, See, Anxious, Thinner
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Josh Billings
Forgiveness, Revenge, Complete
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
- Josh Billings
Truth, Some, Exaggeration, Some People
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
- Josh Billings
Funny, Interesting, Follies
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
- Josh Billings
Money, Go, Like, Further
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
- Josh Billings
Convince, Best Way, His, Wrong
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
- Josh Billings
Enough, Years, Misery, Numb
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
- Josh Billings
Judgment, Most, Honestly, Originality
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
- Josh Billings
Will, Lord, Confess, Forgiven
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
- Josh Billings
Pleasure, Making, Weighs, Making Money
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
- Josh Billings
Us, Ourselves, Disgrace
A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
- Josh Billings
Puppy, Plays, Associates, Meets
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
- Josh Billings
Been, Getting, Ever, Angels
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
- Josh Billings
Poor, Suffer, About, Only Difference
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
- Josh Billings
Money, Pretty, His, Pretty Good
The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
- Josh Billings
People, Know, Much, Trouble
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
- Josh Billings
Age, Think, I Think, Full
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
Woman, Nose, Will, Did
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
- Josh Billings
World, Living, Would, Hash
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
- Josh Billings
Advice, Own, Most, Opinions
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
- Josh Billings
Someone, Over, Victories, Beat
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
- Josh Billings
Women, Men, Lost, Mourn
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
- Josh Billings
Never, Prepared, Which, Twins
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
- Josh Billings
Words, Never, Idea, Hunting
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
- Josh Billings
Bring, Should, Once, Child
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
- Josh Billings
Never, Hundred, Known, Remarkable
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
Enough, Carefully, Am, Lived
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
- Josh Billings
Family, She, General, Pants
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- Josh Billings
Life, Cards, Consists, Holding
Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
- Josh Billings
Woman, Powerful, She, Wants
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
- Josh Billings
Funny, Mistake, Lots, Who
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
- Josh Billings
Age, Run, Old, Difficulties
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
- Josh Billings
Know, Lord, Gout, Thank
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
- Josh Billings
Reason, Never, Does, Conscience
Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
- Josh Billings
Remember, Nothing, Costs, Poor
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
Kind, Him, Give, Advice
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
- Josh Billings
Learn, Nothing, Apply, Experience
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