02c. 1851 ADMarrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.Josh Billings / quote ↗
04c. 1851 ADOne of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.Josh Billings / quote ↗
05c. 1851 ADIn the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.Josh Billings / quote ↗
06c. 1851 ADThere is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.Josh Billings / quote ↗
07c. 1851 ADSuccess does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.Josh Billings / quote ↗
09c. 1851 ADTo bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.Josh Billings / quote ↗
10c. 1851 ADA dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.Josh Billings / quote ↗
11c. 1851 ADAdversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.Josh Billings / quote ↗
12c. 1851 ADThe best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.Josh Billings / quote ↗
13c. 1851 ADWhen a man comes to me for advice I find out the kind of advice he wants and I give it to him.Josh Billings / quote ↗
14c. 1851 ADThe happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.Josh Billings / quote ↗
15c. 1851 ADEvery man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting things he has got.Josh Billings / quote ↗
16c. 1851 ADLife consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you do hold well.Josh Billings / quote ↗
17c. 1851 ADIt ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.Josh Billings / quote ↗
18c. 1851 ADIf it wasn't for faith there would be no living in this world we couldn't even eat hash with any safety.Josh Billings / quote ↗
20c. 1851 ADAs a general thing when a woman wears the pants in a family she has a good right to them.Josh Billings / quote ↗
21c. 1851 ADNature never makes any blunders when she makes a fool she means it.Josh Billings / quote ↗
23c. 1851 ADIt ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.Josh Billings / quote ↗
