Quote

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

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
Never
Health
Like
Lose
Loses
Values
Parkinson
Idea
Wellness
Money
Nutrition
True
Value
Ideas
Motivational

More quotes by Josh Billings

Image
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Josh Billings
Image
It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.
Josh Billings
Image
Fun is a sugar-coated physic.
Josh Billings
Image
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
Josh Billings
Image
The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
Josh Billings
Image
Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.
Josh Billings
Image
It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
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
Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.
Josh Billings
Image
A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.
Josh Billings
Image
I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
Josh Billings
Image
Young widows still bide their time.
Josh Billings
Image
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Josh Billings
Image
Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.
Josh Billings
Image
There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.
Josh Billings
Image
The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.
Josh Billings
Image
I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.
Josh Billings
Image
A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.
Josh Billings
Image
A witty writer is like a porcupine his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.
Josh Billings
Image
Pedigrees seldom improve by age the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.
Josh Billings