Josh Billings Comedy Quotations

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.