Quote

It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.

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
Philosophy
Worst
Strains
Kind
Strain
Men
Beat
Beats
Laugh
Laughing
Gets

More quotes by Josh Billings

Image
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings
Image
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Josh Billings
Image
Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.
Josh Billings
Image
The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.
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
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
Josh Billings
Image
Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.
Josh Billings
Image
Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.
Josh Billings
Image
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Josh Billings
Image
There is a significant Latin proverb to wit: Who will guard the guards?
Josh Billings
Image
Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings
Image
Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.
Josh Billings
Image
There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.
Josh Billings
Image
Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
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 hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.
Josh Billings
Image
If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.
Josh Billings
Image
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Josh Billings
Image
Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.
Josh Billings
Image
Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor.
Josh Billings