I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.


Josh Hartnett

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal...
JOSH HARTNETT
- I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people t...
MICHAEL HUTCHENCE
I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to com...
HELEN OYEYEMI
Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON
I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when tho...
BILLY CORGAN
I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's ...
PAUL MCDONALD
All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.
DAVID CASSIDY
I don't think I care about the hair as much as people think I do. It's just kind of there. I...
JACOB DEGROM
If I have another child, I doubt I'll get married again. I don't think men particularly want...
ANNA NICOLE SMITH
It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON
There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for ...
TAYLOR PHINNEY
Being with Kyra is so natural for me; it's the easiest aspect of my life. I know that I don'...
KEVIN BACON
Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: '...
DAVID CASSIDY
I really - I don't take my work that seriously, and I think that's what keeps me loose. If I...
ELMORE LEONARD
The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't thi...
AUNJANUE ELLIS
I would love to have a conversation with you when we're working, and if I'm at a basketball ...
EMILY RIOS
If it's old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don&...
TENA DESAE
I don't think God cares if I wear nail polish or not. I don't think that's a deal breake...
SOFIA VERGARA
I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.
MALIN AKERMAN
I love that, even after jumping through hoops forever, I can still get that buzz, that hook. That...
GINA MCKEE
There are many people who probably don't agree with my acting, and it should be that way: they d...
ALIA BHATT
If you have 130 people on set, all with different opinions, sometimes it's going to kick off. Th...
ANEURIN BARNARD
It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON
Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON
I don't think I'll be remembered in a big Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin way. I think I'l...
SKRILLEX
People get DUIs, people get in fights with their boyfriends, it happens, life happens, but it's ...
LESLIE BIBB
There was a point where there was a vision that we'll get to a certain age, and then we'll r...
BRUCE LIPTON
If you agree to do a sex scene, you have to be willing to not be awkward about it. C'mon! I don&...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON
I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy ...
PAT OLIPHANT
I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
GARY BARLOW
I don't think there is anything wrong with cosmetic surgery at all. I think it's great. But ...
SHARON STONE
Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think...
KATE ASHFIELD
I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classica...
JACKIE EVANCHO
I don't think I'll ever be comfortable being considered a sex symbol, especially after you w...
JOHN KRASINSKI
I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX
Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you. I don...
JOHN DIMAGGIO
I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't t...
CAMERON DIAZ
If a guy can play Guitar Hero with me and sit at home and watch the Food Network and read magazines ...
BLAKE LIVELY
I definitely don't like anyone messing with my friends or loved ones. I'm quick to step up t...
BLAIR REDFORD
It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Ca...
ADELE
I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's on...
PADDY CONSIDINE
If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything. I believe everything happens fo...
ERIC DAVIS
There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's ...
FLEUR EAST
It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be luc...
AYRTON SENNA
I haven't got a problem with scrutiny. If it gets hot in the kitchen, don't cook a meal. Peo...
KERRY STOKES
A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves...
CARLY CRAIG
I love the entire process of being on the set and being able to create a character. It's so much...
SHERRI SHEPHERD
It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that....
CHLOE SEVIGNY
I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't th...
DAVID BAILEY
I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I&...
DEMI LOVATO
If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's ...
ISAAC BROCK
Everybody really don't rock with each other in Philly - that's a problem. 'Cause me bein...
LIL UZI VERT
And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don'...
CHANTAL KREVIAZUK
I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it'...
MAXINE WATERS
I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen i...
JASON BATEMAN
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH
To me, I think people who don't think it's a big deal to toss a plastic bottle in the garbag...
SOPHIA BUSH
Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children...
HENNING MANKELL
I don't watch sitcoms. I really don't. My problem with them is they take so long to film the...
CAROL BURNETT
I've never owned a T-shirt. I don't like vests or sweaters or cardies with zips. I like a pr...
HOWARD JACOBSON
I figured there's nobody who's going to beat me or shoot me or crucify me. I can't help ...
RALPH HALL
There's always that stigma of, 'Women shouldn't box,' or stereotypes of what a femal...
MANDY BUJOLD
I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.
LACEY CHABERT
I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I d...
KATHERINE JENKINS
Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have t...
BRYAN ADAMS
I don't think I need a significant other to be happy because I always like to find that for myse...
KYLIE JENNER
Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out...
TAMORA PIERCE
The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make ...
WARWICK DAVIS
I don't think ethical people deal with intimidation as a method to achieve success. Undermining ...
DOMINIQUE MOCEANU
I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. An...
OPRAH WINFREY
I've been really lucky to have had a variety of roles, and I don't think I'm in danger o...
TOBIAS MENZIES
There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So ma...
ROBERT GRIFFIN III
I don't like the whole off-and-on thing. I don't like 'taking a break.' Either you&#...
SELENA GOMEZ
I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the ti...
ELLE FANNING
I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
SAMANTHA FOX
If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't wa...
VANESSA HUDGENS
I don't let anyone's insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happ...
DEMI LOVATO
If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.
NIKKI SIXX
It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happene...
PENELOPE SPHEERIS
If I talk to a girl, it's assumed that I'm having a scene with her. If I don't, then it&...
SHAH RUKH KHAN
I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for i...
MAE WHITMAN
I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.
REBECCA ROMIJN
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. W...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone....
CARMEN ELECTRA
There are certain things I don't want to joke about. If it's about somebody else, it's f...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED
Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they we...
DAVID CASSIDY
I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a cert...
PAIGE VANZANT
My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'l...
ABEL FERRARA
What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm c...
LEONARD NIMOY
I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are goin...
DOUG DAVIDSON
I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expe...
KARL PILKINGTON
Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.
SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR
I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as tha...
OLIVIA COLMAN
I think the key is that nothing's ever perfect and you've got to be able to go with change. ...
BEN SAVAGE
People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don&...
BILLY CORGAN
I don't think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I'm suspi...
HUGH LAURIE
I think certainly that looking for love is a big part of the show, but I think that if - there's...
DARREN STAR
If you don't like me, it's your problem.
KAT DENNINGS
I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress a...
AMANDA BYNES

More Josh Hartnett

Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will ...
JOSH HARTNETT
Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex ...
JOSH HARTNETT
I spent my entire first pay cheque from 'Cracker,' a TV show on ABC, on an Audi because my o...
JOSH HARTNETT
We made 16 episodes of Cracker and I loved doing the show, but unfortunately no one was watching us.
JOSH HARTNETT
I'm a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them.
JOSH HARTNETT
I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be origina...
JOSH HARTNETT
I get bored with the same old film coming out every weekend. It feels like it's the same story a...
JOSH HARTNETT
I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to cre...
JOSH HARTNETT
You know, I'm not really any good at working out when people are flirting with me. And I think I...
JOSH HARTNETT
I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themsel...
JOSH HARTNETT
My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'...
JOSH HARTNETT
I've had my heart broken, and it's not fun. But I'd rather have my heart broken than bre...
JOSH HARTNETT
You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. ...
JOSH HARTNETT
I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, bec...
JOSH HARTNETT
It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of i...
JOSH HARTNETT
I'm looking forward to finding someone in life that I can be truly happy with and relate to on all l...
JOSH HARTNETT
I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory.
JOSH HARTNETT
I'd rather have my heart broken, than break one
JOSH HARTNETT
Ever since Poltergeist terrified me when I was 12, I can't watch horror films, I'm a real wuss.
JOSH HARTNETT
I was eating burritos with this girl and she asked me to be her prom date. How could I say no? We we...
JOSH HARTNETT
I play Zeke, who's the coolest guy in school. He's super-smart but a classic under-achiever who opts...
JOSH HARTNETT
I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal...
JOSH HARTNETT
It's a good turnout, ... Rivaling Hollywood.
JOSH HARTNETT
Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.
JOSH HARTNETT
You know, I'm not really any good at working out when people are flirting with me. And I think I'm t...
JOSH HARTNETT
I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way.
JOSH HARTNETT
My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' ...
JOSH HARTNETT
I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up ...
JOSH HARTNETT
I became popular very young. I viewed myself as just a young actor trying to figure out how to do we...
JOSH HARTNETT
My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but ...
JOSH HARTNETT
I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward.
JOSH HARTNETT
She was everything that was untouchable.
SONYA HARTNETT
Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.
SONYA HARTNETT
Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them togeth...
SONYA HARTNETT
If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-an...
SONYA HARTNETT
My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did n...
SONYA HARTNETT
I think there is something in my books that says these are people doing their best under difficult c...
SONYA HARTNETT
More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children....
SONYA HARTNETT
There's a lot of ignorance and apathy. If you are going to organize, you have to understand it — w...
DENNIS HARTNETT
It was a lot of marijuana. So as you could imagine, it gave off quite an odor.
KEVIN HARTNETT
Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded...
SONYA HARTNETT
I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though d...
SONYA HARTNETT
Watching, she had felt unusually and keenly alive, alive the way a knife is sharp, so that the humil...
SONYA HARTNETT
I learned from my experiences that most of the prisoners went to prison when they were young, drunk ...
STEPHEN HARTNETT
We think that's sleazy and an unreliable way to fund public education.
DENNIS HARTNETT
If the bargain is that you are going to get lower property taxes but higher sales taxes, that is no ...
DENNIS HARTNETT
Our main concern is to not trade in lowering property taxes for an increase in sales taxes.
DENNIS HARTNETT
There's a lot of ignorance and apathy. If you are going to organize, you have to understand it — wh...
DENNIS HARTNETT
Before we can teach anything, we have to learn it. We are going to focus on the Texas tax system in ...
DENNIS HARTNETT
I want to enable prisoners to express themselves and get it out in public.
STEPHEN HARTNETT
I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back...
SONYA HARTNETT
We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was ...
SONYA HARTNETT
He is dirt under fingernails and the stick of sap on skin... I am saintly, poetic; I am demise, othe...
SONYA HARTNETT
My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's ...
JOSH TURNER
I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been...
JOSH TURNER
My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and ...
JOSH TURNER
It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.
JOSH TURNER
I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.
JOSH TURNER
To think that my heart and my words and my music saved somebody's life, it takes a while to just...
JOSH TURNER
I've never had the patience of a teacher.
JOSH TURNER
Raising three boys is a huge responsibility for me, especially in this day and time when I look arou...
JOSH TURNER
When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But n...
JOSH TURNER
In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't wan...
JOSH TURNER
The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it ...
JOSH TURNER
One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. ...
JOSH TURNER
Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey that's slowing every...
JOSH TURNER
What I did to celebrate was I went home to my 535-square-foot apartment by myself and ate supper by ...
JOSH TURNER
I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I...
JOSH TURNER
I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by...
JOSH TURNER
We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wron...
JOSH TURNER
My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota F...
JOSH TURNER
I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no...
JOSH TURNER
I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules...
JOSH TURNER
I'm a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I've been through my dark tim...
JOSH TURNER
You have to take time and make time for each other. My current single 'Time Is Love' gives a...
JOSH TURNER
I'm thankful to have Jesus as my Savior. My relationship with God has always been one to where I...
JOSH TURNER
I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.
JOSH TURNER
Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source...
JOSH GAD
It's true to say that I'm a budding young actor. But I'd rather get my name out there be...
JOSH BOWMAN
Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these other...
JOSH MCDOWELL
My workout regimen at the moment is nonexistent. I wake up in the morning and brush my teeth. My too...
JOSH BOWMAN
Despite everything I've been through, despite being a kid with a spotty background, the Clevelan...
JOSH GORDON
I have let down many in Cleveland - my Browns teammates, our hard-working coaching staff, the team&#...
JOSH GORDON
I see myself in a Cleveland Browns uniform and a return for Josh Gordon. Hopefully this time, the bi...
JOSH GORDON
I'd love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some mar...
JOSH KEATON
When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said &...
JOSH MCDOWELL
Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help y...
JOSH MCDANIELS
I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than ...
JOSH GAD
It's just cool to me that Bon Jovi knows my name!
JOSH HOPKINS
Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.
JOSH BILLINGS
In life, I'd much rather have people laughing at me than booing me.
JOSH PECK
Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
JOSH BILLINGS
To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, t...
JOSH RADNOR
I always worked pretty steadily. But maybe out of some kind of fear, I put the brakes on letting mys...
JOSH PAIS
But I think what Liam said just kind of hit it spot on, that the people in the capital are brainwash...
JOSH HUTCHERSON
For me, in the third book, when Peeta gets brainwashed by the Capitol, that's going to be fun to...
JOSH HUTCHERSON
Boots, bushes, gardens, storefronts, buildings, streets, and stars. Why, she would have had to re-cr...
JOSH MALERMAN
Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind o...
JOSH HOMME
Really the topic of breakfast cereal is generally a very boring one.
JOSH HOMME
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety...
JOSH BILLINGS
If it wasn't for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any s...
JOSH BILLINGS
Just because you know stuff doesn't mean you are smart... You have to know how to use that informati...
JOSH KELLER
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
JOSH BILLINGS
The true genius of a Woman is her subtle flair in creating the illusion that you are the smart one
JOSH STERN
Dr. Suess said: 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened..'

I tell my dat...
JOSH STERN
Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
JOSH BILLINGS
The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.
JOSH LANYON
A pause followed my greeting. Then “We’re watching you ” whispered the voice on the other end....
JOSH LANYON
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
JOSH BILLINGS
As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.
JOSH BILLINGS
Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
JOSH BILLINGS
I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's...
JOSH BILLINGS
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
JOSH JENKINS
Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
JOSH BILLINGS
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corr...
JOSH BILLINGS
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
JOSH BILLINGS
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectac...
JOSH BILLINGS
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he m...
JOSH BILLINGS
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
JOSH BILLINGS
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
JOSH BILLINGS
A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
JOSH BILLINGS
Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethe...
JOSH BILLINGS
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to...
JOSH BILLINGS
The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so.
JOSH BILLINGS
Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
JOSH BILLINGS
The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable...
JOSH BILLINGS
To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately.
JOSH BILLINGS
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
JOSH BILLINGS
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
JOSH BILLINGS
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
JOSH BILLINGS
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any sa...
JOSH BILLINGS
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
JOSH MCDOWELL
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
JOSH BILLINGS
It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to...
JOSH BILLINGS
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
JOSH BILLINGS
I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
JOSH BILLINGS
The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
JOSH BILLINGS
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
JOSH BILLINGS
I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
JOSH BILLINGS
Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
JOSH BILLINGS
Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, no...
JOSH BILLINGS
Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
JOSH BILLINGS
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit nev...
JOSH BILLINGS
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
JOSH BILLINGS
Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
JOSH BILLINGS
Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
JOSH BILLINGS
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
JOSH BILLINGS
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
JOSH BILLINGS
A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.
JOSH BILLINGS
Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
JOSH BILLINGS
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgme...
JOSH BILLINGS
Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing til...
JOSH BILLINGS
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy ...
JOSH BILLINGS
To bring up a child in the way he should go -- travel that way yourself.
JOSH BILLINGS
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro...
JOSH BILLINGS
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
JOSH BILLINGS
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.
JOSH BILLINGS
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
JOSH BILLINGS
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter he...
JOSH BILLINGS
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
JOSH BILLINGS
The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, t...
JOSH BILLINGS
Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
JOSH BILLINGS
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his ...
JOSH BILLINGS
Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
JOSH BILLINGS
Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
JOSH BILLINGS
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.
JOSH BILLINGS
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
JOSH BILLINGS
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
JOSH BILLINGS
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
JOSH BILLINGS
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful t...
JOSH BILLINGS
There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy ...
JOSH BILLINGS
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
JOSH BILLINGS
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
JOSH BILLINGS
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
JOSH BILLINGS
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
JOSH BILLINGS
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am ...
JOSH BILLINGS
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
JOSH BILLINGS
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
JOSH BILLINGS
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
JOSH BILLINGS
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
JOSH BILLINGS
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
JOSH BILLINGS
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
JOSH BILLINGS
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
JOSH BILLINGS
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
JOSH BILLINGS
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
JOSH BILLINGS
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
JOSH BILLINGS
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
JOSH BILLINGS
There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.
JOSH BILLINGS
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
JOSH BILLINGS
It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge...
JOSH BILLINGS
Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
JOSH BILLINGS
Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool
JOSH BILLINGS
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed
JOSH BILLINGS
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly en...
JOSH BILLINGS
Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
JOSH BILLINGS
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
JOSH BILLINGS
A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.
JOSH BILLINGS