Josh Billings

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Josh Billings

Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you’re in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.

Josh Billings

Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.

Josh Billings

Man isn’t a fool for his ignorance, but rather for believing things that are wrong.

Josh Billings

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

Josh Billings

Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.

Josh Billings

Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

Josh Billings

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain’t so wicked as their neighbors.

Josh Billings

Music wasn’t made to make us wise, but better natured.

Josh Billings

My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.

Josh Billings