Josh Billings

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

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.