Quote

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

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
Best
Life
Envied
Damned
Condition
Conditions
Rich
Poor

More quotes by 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
The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.
Josh Billings
Image
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
Josh Billings
Image
It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.
Josh Billings
Image
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Josh Billings
Image
As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.
Josh Billings
Image
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings
Image
Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.
Josh Billings
Image
Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of echo,--babbling gossips of the air.
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
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Josh Billings
Image
We should make virtue our master, not our servant.
Josh Billings
Image
Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.
Josh Billings
Image
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
Josh Billings
Image
Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
Josh Billings
Image
The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.
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
He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.
Josh Billings
Image
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings
Image
Occasions are rare and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.
Josh Billings