498 Quotes by Josh Billings

[Science is] the literature of truth.

As in a game of cards, so in the game of life, we must play what is dealt to us, and the glory consists, not so much in winning as in playing a poor hand well.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.

Everyone who does the best he can is a hero.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.

A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.