Quote

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

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
Trying
Hath
Charm
Beast
Humorous
Funny
Revolver
Music
Soothe
Firsts
Savage
First
Savages

More quotes by Josh Billings

Image
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Josh Billings
Image
The quickest way to take the starch out of someone who is always blaming himself is to agree with him.
Josh Billings
Image
There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.
Josh Billings
Image
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Josh Billings
Image
If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.
Josh Billings
Image
There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it.
Josh Billings
Image
Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
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
the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
Josh Billings
Image
There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.
Josh Billings
Image
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings
Image
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Josh Billings
Image
It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.
Josh Billings
Image
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Josh Billings
Image
Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.
Josh Billings
Image
A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.
Josh Billings
Image
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
Josh Billings
Image
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
Image
Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.
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