Josh Billings (pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw) Quotes
The best condition in life is not to be so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
Pity cost nothing and isn't worth nothing.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Faith is the soul riding at anchor.
Marrying for love may be a bit
risky, but it is so honest that
God can't help but smile on it.
Silence is one of the hardest
arguments to refute.
Man was created a little lower
than the angels, and has been
getting lower ever since.
I've never known a person who
lives to 110 who is
remarkable for anything else.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles - on her own nose all the time.