Quote

The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.

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
Unfortunate
Pity

More quotes by Josh Billings

Image
Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way.
Josh Billings
Image
Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor.
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
It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.
Josh Billings
Image
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
Josh Billings
Image
the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
Josh Billings
Image
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings
Image
Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.
Josh Billings
Image
Rumor is like bees the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.
Josh Billings
Image
Perseverance is king.
Josh Billings
Image
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
Josh Billings
Image
If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.
Josh Billings
Image
There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.
Josh Billings
Image
Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.
Josh Billings
Image
The books are balanced in heaven, not here.
Josh Billings
Image
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Josh Billings
Image
The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.
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
There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it.
Josh Billings
Image
A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.
Josh Billings