498 Quotes by Josh Billings

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

Never teach your child to be cunning for you may be certain that you will be one of the first victims of his shrewdness

Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.

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

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.