There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Josh Billings
There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
Josh Billings
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Josh Billings
The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
Josh Billings
Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
Josh Billings
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
Josh Billings
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
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh Billings
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Josh Billings
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
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
Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
Josh Billings
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
Josh Billings
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
Josh Billings
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
Josh Billings
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
Josh Billings
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
Josh Billings