Quotes By Josh Billings

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.

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

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

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

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

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

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

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

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

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

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

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

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

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

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

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