498 Quotes by Josh Billings

Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.

Jealousy is one of love's parasites.

A wise man never enjoys himself so much, nor a fool so little, as when alone.

The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.