Josh Billings

Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

Josh Billings

Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.

Josh Billings

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

Josh Billings

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

Josh Billings

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Josh Billings

People travel to learn; most of them before they start should learn to travel.

Josh Billings

Pity cost nothing and ain’t worth nothing.

Josh Billings

Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.

Josh Billings

Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.

Josh Billings

Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don’t get rid of them.

Josh Billings