Josh Billings

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his…

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him…

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply…

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its…

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we…

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral…

There are two kinds of fools: those who can’t change their opinions and those who…

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to…

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain’t so wicked as their neighbors…

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home…

It ain’t often that a man’s reputation outlasts his money…

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear…

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory…

Every man has his follies – and often they are the most interesting thing he has…

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without…