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

Quote by Josh Billings

Topics: Wisdom Quotes

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the...

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the...

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...

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for...

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for...

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer...

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer...

Reason often makes mistakes but conscience never does.

Reason often makes mistakes but conscience never does.

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced...

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced...

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

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

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

Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.

Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

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

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

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.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who...

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who...

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to...

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to...

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...

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't...

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't...

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its...

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its...

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has bin getting a little...

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has bin getting a little...