498 Quotes by Josh Billings

Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet.

Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.