498 Quotes by Josh Billings

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall. They never fail to rise again.

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

It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.

Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.

It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

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