Top 80 Quotes by Josh Billings

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

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

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.