498 Quotes by Josh Billings

I honestly believe it is better tew know nothing than tew know what ain't so

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

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

Genius ain't nothing more than elegant common sense.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

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

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.

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