Famous Quotes

Quotes by Josh Billings

• The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
• The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
• The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
• The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
• The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
• The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
• There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
• There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
• There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
• There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
• There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
• There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
• There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
• There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
• Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
• To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.