A collection of quotes by Josh Billings.
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Josh Billings
Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
