Josh Billings Quotes

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Josh Billings
Wisdom
The wheel that squeaks the loudestIs the one that gets the grease.
Josh Billings
Business
I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain't so.
Josh Billings
Knowledge
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
Politics
It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to commit, is asking tew mutch ov enny man, now days.
Josh Billings
Ethics
Tew bring up a child in the wa he should go—travel that wa yourself.
Josh Billings
Family
Don't mistake vivacity for wit, thare iz about az mutch difference az thare iz between lightning and a lightning bug.
Josh Billings
Wisdom
Most people when they cum tew yu for advice cum tew hav their own opinyuns strengthened, not correkted.
Josh Billings
Wisdom
As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.
Josh Billings
Life

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