498 Quotes by Josh Billings

Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.

Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.

Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.