Josh Billings

It’s not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.

Josh Billings

It’s not what we don’t know that prevents us from succeeding; it’s what we know that just ain’t so that is our greatest obstacle.

Josh Billings

Jealousy is one of love’s parasites.

Josh Billings

Keep a cow, and the milk won’t have to be watered but once.

Josh Billings

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

Josh Billings

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

Josh Billings

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

Josh Billings

Love is like the measles; we can’t have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

Josh Billings

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Josh Billings