Quotes from Josh Billings

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for

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

Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Health is like money–we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

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

It iz the little bits ov things that fret and worry us; we kan dodge an elefunt but we kan't a fli.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

Poverty iz the stepmother ov genius.

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.

The wheel that squeaks the loudestIs the one that gets the grease.

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

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

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

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

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.

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

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

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

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

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.