Quotes by Josh Billings

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

Reason often makes mistakes but conscience never does.

#Mistakes

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

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

#Josh Billings

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

#Josh Billings

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to...

#Josh Billings

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

#Josh Billings

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

#Josh Billings

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

#Josh Billings