1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
Josh Billings – [Flattery]

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings – [Honesty]

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
Josh Billings – [Poverty and The Poor]

I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
Josh Billings – [Speakers and Speaking]

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.
Josh Billings – [Certainty]

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
Josh Billings – [Age and Aging]

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
Josh Billings – [Money]

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Josh Billings – [Knowledge]

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
Josh Billings – [Perfection]

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
Josh Billings – [Faith]

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.
Josh Billings – [Happiness]

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Josh Billings – [Age and Aging]

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
Josh Billings – [Incredulity]

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
Josh Billings – [Wealth]

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.
Josh Billings – [Wickedness]

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Josh Billings – [Attitude]

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
Josh Billings – [Repentance]

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
Josh Billings – [Self-discovery]

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
Josh Billings – [Self-knowledge]

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
Josh Billings – [Knowledge]

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