Josh Billings Quotes - Page 3

A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

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

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.

It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

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

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

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

Silence is a still noise.

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.

I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.

There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.