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Josh Billings
Quotes by Josh Billings
Quotes by Josh Billings
“About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.”
Josh Billings
“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
“Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.”
Josh Billings
“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.”
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 the next thing to money.”
Josh Billings
“I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.”
Josh Billings
“If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.”
Josh Billings
“It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.”
Josh Billings
“It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.”
Josh Billings
“It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.”
Josh Billings
“It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.”
Josh Billings
“Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.”
Josh Billings
“No one can disgrace us but ourselves.”
Josh Billings
“Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.”
Josh Billings
“Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.”
Josh Billings
“Remember the poor, it costs nothing.”
Josh Billings
“The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.”
Josh Billings
“The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.”
Josh Billings
“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
“Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.”
Josh Billings
