Quotes by Josh Billings

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

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

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern;
put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage;
put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing;
put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.

Poverty is the stepmother of genius.

I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.

Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

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

Solitude: A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.