Josh Billings World Quotations

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

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.

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.

Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.

The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.

Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.