Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.
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
Says
Consoled
Widows
Holmes
Easiest
Crying
Grief
Cry
Truly
Wittily
More quotes by Josh Billings
A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.
Josh Billings
When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road.
Josh Billings
Fun is a sugar-coated physic.
Josh Billings
The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
Josh Billings
Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
Josh Billings
I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.
Josh Billings
There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
Josh Billings
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
Josh Billings
It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.
Josh Billings
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
Josh Billings
In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
Josh Billings
Pedigrees seldom improve by age the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.
Josh Billings
The books are balanced in heaven, not here.
Josh Billings
Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.
Josh Billings
It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often it is because there is so much fun n the making up.
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
Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
Josh Billings
Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.
Josh Billings
Method is the arithmetic of success.
Josh Billings
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
Josh Billings
