Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

Quote by Josh Billings

Topics: Silence Quotes

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.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God...

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to...

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to...

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

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

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life,...

My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life,...

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time...

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time...

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

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

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...

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...

The less we know the more we suspect

The less we know the more we suspect

Poverty is the step-mother of genius

Poverty is the step-mother of genius

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...

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

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

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...

There is no sanctuary so holy that money cannot profane it, no fortress so strong...

There is no sanctuary so holy that money cannot profane it, no fortress so strong...