Josh Billings

"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."

"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."

"As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them."

"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."

"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."

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

"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us."

"It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money."

"Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe."

"Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."

"Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got."

"One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can."

"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."

"The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout."

"The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust."

"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way."

"The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm."

"There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply."

"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."

"Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has."