Josh Billings Quotes

The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.

My advice to those who are about to begin in earnest the journey of life is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.

Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope.

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

A dog Is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

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

Be like a postage stamp-stick to one thing until you get there.

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself and then deliberately gets into.

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

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man without lowering him in his estimation and yours too.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient too.

When a man gets talking about himself he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

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

There are people who are always anticipating trouble and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.

It is the little things that fret and worry us you can dodge an elephant but not a fly.

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