Quotes from 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.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

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

Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

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

Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient too.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

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

We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.

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

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.

Method is the arithmetic of success.