498 Quotes by Josh Billings

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first, – to be intelligently simple.

It strains a man’s philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.

Pity costs nothing, and it ain’t worth nothing.

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

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has...

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain’t gout.

There are very few good judges of humor, and they don’t agree.

If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn’t have it in the beginning.

It’s a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it’s a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.