Josh Billings

There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.

Josh Billings

There’s one good thing about tight shoes; they make you forget your other troubles.

Josh Billings

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust

Josh Billings

Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.

Josh Billings

To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

Josh Billings

True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.

Josh Billings

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

Josh Billings

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.

Josh Billings

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

Josh Billings

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

Josh Billings