Josh Billings

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Josh Billings

There’s a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.

Josh Billings

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

Josh Billings

Wisdom that don’t make us happier ain’t worth plowing for.

Josh Billings

Woman’s influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Josh Billings

A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.

Josh Billings

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Josh Billings

A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.

Josh Billings

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that’s lost – he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

Josh Billings

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided – it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

Josh Billings