498 Quotes by Josh Billings

Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven’t much left to do business with.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can’t suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Wisdom that don’t make us happier ain’t worth plowing for.

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.

I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain’t spelled.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can’t bear to have anyone else one.

The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it’s slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn’t reduce our follies.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain’t got.