Josh Billings

Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.

Josh Billings

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn’t reduce our follies.

Josh Billings

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

Josh Billings

Fortune is like a coquette; if you don’t run after her, she will run after you.

Josh Billings

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

Josh Billings

He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.

Josh Billings

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.

Josh Billings

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.

Josh Billings

I don’t care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.

Josh Billings

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.

Josh Billings