A biography for Josh Billingshasn’t been written yet.
“Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.”
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.”
“The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.”
“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”
“There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.”
“Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.”
“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.”
“Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.”
“One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.”
“About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.”
“It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.”
“Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.”
“It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.”
“Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.”
“The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.”
“Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.”
“It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.”
“The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.”
“I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.”
“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.”