Josh Billings

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Josh Billings

If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.

Josh Billings

It ain’t often that a man’s reputation outlasts his money.

Josh Billings

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

Josh Billings

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

Josh Billings

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Josh Billings

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Josh Billings

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.

Josh Billings

It strains a man’s philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.

Josh Billings

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.

Josh Billings