Quote

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

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
Never
Ceases
Like
Dollar
Bill
Cease
Bills
Dollars
Broken
Secret
Confided

More quotes by Josh Billings

Image
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
Josh Billings
Image
Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.
Josh Billings
Image
Threescore years and ten is enough if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
Josh Billings
Image
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Josh Billings
Image
Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.
Josh Billings
Image
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
Josh Billings
Image
It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.
Josh Billings
Image
Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.
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
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Josh Billings
Image
Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.
Josh Billings
Image
Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
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
Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.
Josh Billings
Image
It's not ignorance does so much damage it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.
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
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
Josh Billings
Image
When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.
Josh Billings
Image
It is easy to assume a habit but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.
Josh Billings
Image
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
Josh Billings