"If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control."
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. Josh Billings
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. Josh Billings
A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates. Josh Billings
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. Josh Billings
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. Josh Billings
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. Josh Billings
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. Josh Billings
Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel. Josh Billings
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. Josh Billings
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. Josh Billings
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. Josh Billings
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. Josh Billings
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. Josh Billings
Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it. Josh Billings
Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. Josh Billings
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. Josh Billings
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. Josh Billings
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. Josh Billings
Honesty 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
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. Josh Billings
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else. Josh Billings
I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money. Josh Billings
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. Josh Billings
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. Josh Billings
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety. Josh Billings
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. Josh Billings
If 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
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so. Josh Billings
It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit. Josh Billings
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. Josh Billings
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. Josh Billings
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. Josh Billings
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. Josh Billings
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. Josh Billings
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. Josh Billings
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined. Josh Billings
Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do. Josh Billings
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. Josh Billings
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. Josh Billings
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got. Josh Billings
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. Josh Billings
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. Josh Billings
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. Josh Billings
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. Josh Billings
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can. Josh Billings
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. Josh Billings
