Josh Billings

“Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.”

“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.”

“Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.”

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.”

“Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.”

“The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.”

“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”

“Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.”

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

“About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.”

“It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.”

“Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.”

“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.”

“Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.”

“One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.”

“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”

“The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.”

“It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.”

“Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.”

“Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.”