Quotes by Josh Billings

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

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

There’s a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

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.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.