Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
Josh Billings
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
Writer
Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Better
Make
Men
Weakness
Weak
Friend
Enemy
More quotes by Josh Billings
Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.
Josh Billings
The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.
Josh Billings
Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.
Josh Billings
Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
Josh Billings
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Josh Billings
If a man is right, he can't be too radical if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.
Josh Billings
Keep a cow, and then the milk won't have to be watered but once.
Josh Billings
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
Josh Billings
It is easy to assume a habit but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.
Josh Billings
I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
Josh Billings
Titles are valuable they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.
Josh Billings
When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.
Josh Billings
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings
Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.
Josh Billings
There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
Josh Billings
Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.
Josh Billings
Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
Josh Billings
Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.
Josh Billings
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.
Josh Billings
The books are balanced in heaven, not here.
Josh Billings