Quotes By Josh Billings
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
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
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
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
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
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
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh Billings
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
Josh Billings
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
Josh Billings
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
Josh Billings
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh Billings