Josh Billings Quotes

Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.

Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are.

The trouble ain’t that people are ignorant: it’s that they know so much that ain’t so.

It iz better tew know nothing than tew know what ain’t so.

There are very few good judges of humor, and they don’t agree.

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

All the honesty in the world ain’t legal tender for one loaf of bread.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.