498 Quotes by Josh Billings

Health is like munny, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

Some folks as they grow older grow wisebut most folks simply grow stubborner.

There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.

Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing well those you do hold.

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.

The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.

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

It is a darned sight easier to find six men who can tell exactly how a thing ought to be did than to find one who will do it.

Experience is a grindstone and it is lucky for us if we get brightened by it— not ground.