Josh Billings
22 quotes.
Quotes by Josh Billings
- Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
- Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.
- Fortune is like a mirror--it does not alter men; it only shows men just as they are.
- Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
- He that will follow good advice, is a greater man than he that gives it.
- How to get RICH? 1st, make more; 2nd, spend less.
- I never knew a man in all my life who was troubled with the BLUES who had plenty of work to do and did it.
- Lies are like nitro-glycerine--the best of judges can't tell where they are going to burst and scatter confusion.
- Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- Men who have much to say use the fewest words.
- Most people, when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
- My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
- One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
- One of the safest and most successful talents I know of is to be a good listener.
- Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.
- Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one the second time.
- The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
- There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
- There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness, and none more profitable.
- Time is like money; the less we have of it to spare, the further we make it go.
- What the world wants iz good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.
- Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.