Quotes By Josh Billings

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

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

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

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

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

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

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

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

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.