Josh Billings Life Quotations

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

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

There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins

Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of

Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer it goes with us

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.