01c. 1851 ADIf 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 / quote ↗
02c. 1851 ADA good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.Josh Billings / quote ↗
04c. 1851 ADThere is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.Josh Billings / quote ↗
07c. 1851 ADLife consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.Josh Billings / quote ↗
08c. 1851 ADLaughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.Josh Billings / quote ↗
09c. 1851 ADThere's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.Josh Billings / quote ↗
10c. 1851 ADMost people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.Josh Billings / quote ↗
11c. 1851 ADThere is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.Josh Billings / quote ↗
12c. 1851 ADThe thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.Josh Billings / quote ↗
13c. 1851 ADThere's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.Josh Billings / quote ↗
14c. 1851 ADThere are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.Josh Billings / quote ↗
15c. 1851 ADEvery man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.Josh Billings / quote ↗
17c. 1851 ADThe wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.Josh Billings / quote ↗
18c. 1851 ADHonesty 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 / quote ↗
19c. 1851 ADLearning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.Josh Billings / quote ↗
21c. 1851 ADThere are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.Josh Billings / quote ↗
