Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves.

Quote by Josh Billings

Topics: Money Quotes

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

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.

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

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

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing...

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing...

The less we know the more we suspect

The less we know the more we suspect

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

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

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck...

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck...

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

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

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

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...

It's not the things you don't know that fool you. It's the things you do...

It's not the things you don't know that fool you. It's the things you do...

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius

Poverty is the step-mother of genius

Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up...

Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up...

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist:...

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist:...

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

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

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

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

Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later...

Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later...

I had a dream my life would be So different from this hell I'm living...

I had a dream my life would be So different from this hell I'm living...

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell...

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell...