498 Quotes by Josh Billings

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can’t dodge a fly.

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.

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.

Keep a cow, and the milk won’t have to be watered but once.

It AIN’T so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.

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

Don’t take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness – when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

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