Quote

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

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
Discovered
Hardest
Argument
Silence
Wisdom
Refute
Best
Arguments
Kind
Substitute
Good
Substitutes

More quotes by Josh Billings

Image
A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.
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
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Josh Billings
Image
Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
Josh Billings
Image
Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.
Josh Billings
Image
Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.
Josh Billings
Image
I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.
Josh Billings
Image
Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.
Josh Billings
Image
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
Josh Billings
Image
If a man is right, he can't be too radical if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.
Josh Billings
Image
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
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
There is a significant Latin proverb to wit: Who will guard the guards?
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
Image
Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.
Josh Billings
Image
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
Josh Billings
Image
Titles are valuable they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.
Josh Billings
Image
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings
Image
There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.
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