A collection of quotes by Josh Billings.
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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
Josh Billings
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy it.
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
