Quotes by Josh Billings

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.

There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.

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

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.

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

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

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

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

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

Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.