498 Quotes by Josh Billings

If a man is right, he can’t be too radical; if he is wrong, he can’t be too conservative.

Doesn’t know much, but leads the league in nostril hair.

The less we know the more we suspect.

It’s not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.

Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don’t get rid of them.

Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite.

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire’s parent.

The dog that will follow everbody ain’t worth a curse.