Josh Billings

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

— Josh Billings

#achieve #any #good #good judgment #honestly

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it. ↗

— Josh Billings

#between #difference #enjoy #misery #only

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it. ↗

— Josh Billings

#forget #nobody #prophesy #remember #right

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

#carefully #certain #enough #first #first time

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

#folks #got #haven #i #impudence

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

— Josh Billings

#being #cry #fifty #full #good

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. ↗

— Josh Billings

#enjoy #happen #himself #immediately #man

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

— Josh Billings

#could #eat #even #faith #hash

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

— Josh Billings

#man #money #often #outlasts #reputation

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. ↗

— Josh Billings

#estimation #forgive #him #his #job