Quotes By 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.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

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.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

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.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

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

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.

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.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.