Quote

There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.

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
Humans
Promises
Heart
Revenge
Much
Promise
Pay
Passion
Littles
Little
Human
Pays

More quotes by Josh Billings

Image
The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
Josh Billings
Image
Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.
Josh Billings
Image
Young widows still bide their time.
Josh Billings
Image
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
Josh Billings
Image
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
Josh Billings
Image
Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.
Josh Billings
Image
You cannot analyze a kiss any more than you can dissect the fragrance of flowers.
Josh Billings
Image
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Josh Billings
Image
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
Image
Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.
Josh Billings
Image
Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.
Josh Billings
Image
People travel to learn most of them before they start should learn to travel.
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
Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
Josh Billings
Image
Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.
Josh Billings
Image
Rumor is like bees the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.
Josh Billings
Image
The books are balanced in heaven, not here.
Josh Billings
Image
Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.
Josh Billings
Image
I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.
Josh Billings
Image
Occasions are rare and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.
Josh Billings