Quote

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

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
People
Acquired
Watching
Spend
Pleasure
Wells
Well
Take
Time
Tons

More quotes by 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
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Josh Billings
Image
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings
Image
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.
Josh Billings
Image
In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
Josh Billings
Image
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
Josh Billings
Image
There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.
Josh Billings
Image
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Josh Billings
Image
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
Josh Billings
Image
Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.
Josh Billings
Image
Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
Josh Billings
Image
I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.
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
Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.
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
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
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
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
There is a significant Latin proverb to wit: Who will guard the guards?
Josh Billings
Image
I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
Josh Billings