Quotes By 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
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
Josh Billings
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
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
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
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
Josh Billings
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Josh Billings