Josh Billings

Quote link. Other quotes about: hope good honest: "About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth love: "A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."
Quote link.: "After enlightenment, the laundry."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost man run mind: "A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost--he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth: "As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
Quote link.: "Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there."
Quote link.: "Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail then you can let go when you want to."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got."
Quote link.: "Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good: "Good nonsense is good sense in disguise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first live world time look: "I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right never success: "I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway."
Quote link.: "It ain't what folks know that's the problem, it's what they know that ain't so."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man purpose good: "It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience man good wise: "It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow."
Quote link.: "It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money: "Knowledge is like money the more he gets, the more he craves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good: "Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good: "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
Quote link.: "Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners."
Quote link. Other quotes about: look: "Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god honest love: "Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it."
Quote link.: "One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never conscience: "Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hard: "Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old wise grow: "Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong: "The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world: "The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money man life making: "The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm."
Quote link. Other quotes about: forgiveness: "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience nothing hard: "There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time: "The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hate: "We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think world man soul: "What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man mind: "When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool."