Quotes by Josh Billings

"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us."

"I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry."

"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."

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

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

"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together."

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

"Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place."

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

"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense."

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

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

"Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe."

"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."

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

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

"There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't."