Josh Billings

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

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

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

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.

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

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

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

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.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.