498 Quotes by Josh Billings

If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Silence is a still noise.

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.

The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.