498 Quotes by Josh Billings

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

Silence never makes any blunders.

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.