Josh Billings Quotes - Page 2

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

Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.

Caution, though very often wasted is a good risk to take.

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.

There is not a whole lot of fun in medicine but there is a whole lot of medicine in fun.

The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.

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

Suicide is cheating the doctor out of job.

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

Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.

Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.

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.

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

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

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

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.

Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

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

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.

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