498 Quotes by Josh Billings

There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it.

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

If it wasn't for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any safety.

Don't have any more secrets than you can keep yourself.

Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.

Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves.

Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust