Quote

Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.

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
Handy
Handsome
Especially
Beauty
Woman
Beautiful
Thing

More quotes by Josh Billings

Image
Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.
Josh Billings
Image
It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.
Josh Billings
Image
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Josh Billings
Image
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Josh Billings
Image
We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.
Josh Billings
Image
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
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
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
Josh Billings
Image
There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.
Josh Billings
Image
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
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
Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.
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
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.
Josh Billings
Image
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
Josh Billings
Image
The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.
Josh Billings
Image
Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.
Josh Billings
Image
Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.
Josh Billings
Image
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Josh Billings
Image
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Josh Billings