Josh Billings

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

— Josh Billings

#awake #everywhere #learning #libraries #sleeps

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. ↗

— Josh Billings

#dreadful #easy #enough #give #like

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins. ↗

— Josh Billings

#never #prepared #things #truly #twins

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

— Josh Billings

#great #great power #hitch #many #power

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

— Josh Billings

#got #lost #men #mourn

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

— Josh Billings

#evidence #greater #nothing #superior #surprised

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. ↗

— Josh Billings

#enjoy #haven #health #lot #much

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. ↗

— Josh Billings

#comes #find #give #him #i

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

— Josh Billings

#been #demand #excess #scarce #supply

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. ↗

— Josh Billings

#exaggeration #lying #people #some #some people