Quotes

“A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.” Josh Billings

“A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.” Josh Billings

“The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.” 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 road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.” Josh Billings

“I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.” Josh Billings

“If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.” Josh Billings

“Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.” Josh Billings

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

“Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.” Josh Billings

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

“The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.” Josh Billings

“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.” Josh Billings

“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

“Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.” Josh Billings

“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.” Josh Billings

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