Josh Billings

Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.

Josh Billings

Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.

Josh Billings

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Josh Billings

Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.

Josh Billings

Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.

Josh Billings

As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth – hear both sides and believe neither.

Josh Billings

As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.

Josh Billings

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

Josh Billings

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Josh Billings

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Josh Billings