498 Quotes by Josh Billings

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.

We hate those who will not take our advice and despise those who do

I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

To bring up a child in the way he should go - travel that way yourself.

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.