Quote

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

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
Praise
Lord
Fall
Thing
Men
Slippery
Ice
Hardest

More quotes by Josh Billings

Image
Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.
Josh Billings
Image
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
Josh Billings
Image
Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.
Josh Billings
Image
Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.
Josh Billings
Image
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
Image
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
Josh Billings
Image
Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
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
Method is the arithmetic of success.
Josh Billings
Image
Rumor is like bees the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.
Josh Billings
Image
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
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
True valor is like honesty it enters into all that a man sees and does.
Josh Billings
Image
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
Josh Billings
Image
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Josh Billings
Image
the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
Josh Billings
Image
Pedantry is paraded knowledge.
Josh Billings
Image
Keep a cow, and then the milk won't have to be watered but once.
Josh Billings
Image
Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.
Josh Billings
Image
If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.
Josh Billings