Josh Billings
61 quotations
Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.