Josh Billings Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.

  Josh Billings

  Things In Life, Two, Comedy

• There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Fitness, Time

• Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

  Josh Billings

  Common Sense, Genius, Comedy

• The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Comedy, Moral

• Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

  Josh Billings

  Faith, Men, Comedy

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

• There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

  Josh Billings

  Change, Two, Fool

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

• Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Humor, Fools Day

• There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

  Josh Billings

  Lying, Exaggeration Is, People

  "Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised".

• Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

• There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Witty, Educational

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

• It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

  Josh Billings

  Forgiveness, Jobs, Men

• There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

  Josh Billings

  People, Worry, Sorrow

• Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

  Josh Billings

  Women, Comedy, Lost

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

• Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

• Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

  Josh Billings

  Common Sense, Genius, Comedy

  Josh Billings (1953). “Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh”

• There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

  Josh Billings

  Intelligence, Aristocracy, Comedy

• Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

  Josh Billings

  Mother, Law, Boards

• Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

  Josh Billings

  Love, Powerful, Want Something

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

• Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Dollars, Saving

• The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

  Josh Billings

  Pay, Ruins, Comedy

• One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

  Josh Billings

  Pride, Men, Air

• Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

  Josh Billings

  Racist, Comedy, Made

  Josh Billings (1953). “Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh”

• It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Acceptance, Discovery

• No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

  Josh Billings

  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Comedy

• About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

  Josh Billings

  Differences, Suffering, Comedy

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