“Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.”
Intelligence
“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.”
HappinessAll Quotes by Josh Billings
“Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.”
Knowledge“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”
Forgiveness“The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.”
Best“One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.”
Best“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.”
Experience“The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.”
Fear“There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.”
Intelligence“The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.”
Best“As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.”
Family“Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.”
Good“Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.”
Money“The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.”
Money“A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.”
Happiness“Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.”
Money“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.”
Wisdom“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.”
God“It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.”
God“If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.”
Faith“I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.”
Age