Quotes by Josh Billings

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

#Knowledge

I've never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for...

#Knowledge

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

#Advice

We hate those who will not take our advice and despise those who do.

#Advice

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

#Advice

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

#Life

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

#Life

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

#Luck

Poverty is the step-mother of genius

#Genius, #Poverty

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

#Honesty

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

#Love, #Pleasure

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

#Josh Billings