498 Quotes by Josh Billings

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

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.

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

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.