{"id":3814,"date":"2016-05-13T13:55:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T18:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2016-05-13T13:55:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T18:55:11","slug":"Famous_Quotes_by_Josh_Billings_81_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=3814","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes by Josh Billings (81 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"
1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer<\/b><\/div>\n
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.<\/div>\n
Josh Billings – [Animals<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.<\/div>\n
Josh Billings – [Places<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.<\/div>\n
Josh Billings – [Happiness<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.<\/div>\n
Josh Billings – [Friends and Friendship<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.<\/div>\n
Josh Billings – [Plagiarism<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist — it reduces him to his fighting weight.<\/div>\n
Josh Billings – [Adversity<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.<\/div>\n
Josh Billings – [Advice<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.<\/div>\n
Josh Billings – [Debt<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.<\/div>\n
Josh Billings – [Marriage<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.<\/div>\n
Josh Billings – [Success<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.<\/div>\n
Josh Billings – [Truth<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.<\/div>\n
Josh Billings – [Mother-in-Laws<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.<\/div>\n
Josh Billings – [Common Sense<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.<\/div>\n
Josh Billings – [Perseverance<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.<\/div>\n
Josh Billings – [Prophecy<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.<\/div>\n
Josh Billings – [Pleasure<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.<\/div>\n
Josh Billings – [Procrastination<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.<\/div>\n
Josh Billings – [Control<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.<\/div>\n
Josh Billings – [Experience<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.<\/div>\n
Josh Billings – [Experience<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Quotations 1 to 20 of 81<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNext ><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLast<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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