Josh Billings
61 quotations
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
To bring up a child in the way he should go -- travel that way yourself.
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so.