498 Quotes by Josh Billings

Don’t put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.

As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth – hear both sides and believe neither.

Life is short, but it’s long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

It is true that wealth won’t make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain’t anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can’t change their opinions and those who won’t.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn’t anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn’t be any more of a success than an angleworm is.

Don’t ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

Don’t mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry – for the clothes.