Josh Billings Quotations | Page 4

Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.

Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.

If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.

It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to commit, is asking tew mutch ov enny man, now days.

What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.