Quotes from Josh Billings

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

Young widows still bide their time.

There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together.

People travel to learn; most of them before they start should learn to travel.

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.

Jealousy is one of love's parasites.

Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

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 he loves himself.

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

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

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

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

It is the little things that fret and worry us; you can dodge an elephant, but not a fly.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.