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.

Quote by Josh Billings

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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

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

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

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as...

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as...

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

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

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

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

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent...

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent...

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

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

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

The less we know the more we suspect

The less we know the more we suspect

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man...

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man...

When a man comes to me for advice I find out the kind of advice...

When a man comes to me for advice I find out the kind of advice...

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

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

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

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he...

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he...

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions...

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions...

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the...

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the...

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we...

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we...