Quote

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.

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
Plenty
Contrary
Rivers
Folks
Upon
Upstream
Fall
Insist
Would
Floating
River

More quotes by Josh Billings

Image
As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.
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
A witty writer is like a porcupine his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.
Josh Billings
Image
Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.
Josh Billings
Image
Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings
Image
You cannot analyze a kiss any more than you can dissect the fragrance of flowers.
Josh Billings
Image
You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.
Josh Billings
Image
We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.
Josh Billings
Image
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Josh Billings
Image
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
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
If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.
Josh Billings
Image
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Josh Billings
Image
To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.
Josh Billings
Image
Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
Josh Billings
Image
Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.
Josh Billings
Image
Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.
Josh Billings
Image
It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.
Josh Billings
Image
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
Josh Billings
Image
Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.
Josh Billings