Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
Josh Billings

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
Josh Billings

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
Josh Billings

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Josh Billings

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
Josh Billings

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
Josh Billings

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
Josh Billings

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
Josh Billings

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
Josh Billings

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Josh Billings

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

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
Josh Billings

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
Josh Billings

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
Josh Billings

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
Josh Billings

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

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings

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

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
Josh Billings