Josh Billings
Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.Collection: Men
Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel.Collection: Law
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.Collection: Success
I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.Collection: Entrepreneur
The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.Collection: Missing
It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.Collection: Elephants
I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.Collection: Men
The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.Collection: Inspirational
If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.Collection: Men
Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.Collection: Men
Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.Collection: Jobs
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.Collection: Two
Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.Collection: Opportunity
A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.Collection: Wise
Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.Collection: Integrity
Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.Collection: Fall
The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.Collection: Age
As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.Collection: Moral
Method is the arithmetic of success.Collection: Arithmetic
I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.Collection: Character
The best creed we can have is charity toward the creeds of others.Collection: Tolerance
I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.Collection: Sorrow
True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.Collection: Honesty
Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.Collection: Selfish
I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.Collection: Lying
Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm isCollection: Men
The less we know the more we suspectCollection: Reading
Keep a cow, and then the milk won't have to be watered but once.Collection: Cows
If animals had reason, they would act just as ridiculous as we menfolks do.Collection: Animal
The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass.Collection: Morning
the squeeky wheel gets the grease.Collection: Grease
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.Collection: Men
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.Collection: Experience
When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.Collection: People
Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.Collection: Men
Young widows still bide their time.Collection: Widows
Everyone who does the best he can is a hero.Collection: Hero
The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.Collection: Life
The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.Collection: Thinking
Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.Collection: Mouths
You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.Collection: Stupidity
Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.Collection: Appreciation
He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.Collection: Hero
Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.Collection: Inspirational
Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.Collection: Laughter
Anxiety will bear a lot of nuisance.Collection: Anxiety
Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.Collection: Smart
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.Collection: Forgiveness
Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.Collection: Peace