498 Quotes by Josh Billings

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.

I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.

Shame is the dying embers of virtue.

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.