Quote

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

Josh Billings

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
Writer
Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Actually
Tell
Truth
Without
People
Exaggeration
Addicted
Comedy
Lying

More quotes by Josh Billings

Image
Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.
Josh Billings
Image
Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.
Josh Billings
Image
You cannot analyze a kiss any more than you can dissect the fragrance of flowers.
Josh Billings
Image
What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.
Josh Billings
Image
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings
Image
Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.
Josh Billings
Image
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
Image
Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.
Josh Billings
Image
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
Josh Billings
Image
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh Billings
Image
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings
Image
Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
Josh Billings
Image
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
Josh Billings
Image
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
Josh Billings
Image
A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.
Josh Billings
Image
As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.
Josh Billings
Image
Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them.
Josh Billings
Image
It is easy to assume a habit but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.
Josh Billings
Image
Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
Josh Billings
Image
Vanity is a strange passion rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.
Josh Billings