Josh Billings

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. ↗

— Josh Billings

#been #created #ever #getting #little

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

— Josh Billings

#airs #best #cures #man #never

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. ↗

— Josh Billings

#best way #convince #fool #him #his

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

— Josh Billings

#expense #good #pay #repair #road

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. ↗

— Josh Billings

#apply #easy #hard #learn #nothing

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb. ↗

— Josh Billings

#man #misery #must #numb #suffer

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. ↗

— Josh Billings

#go #less #like #make #money

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. ↗

— Josh Billings

#child #go #once #should #travel

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. ↗

— Josh Billings

#idea #ideas #never #often #seen

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. ↗

— Josh Billings

#find #fit #good #good way #happiness