Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

— Josh Billings

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.

— Josh Billings

If it wasn't for faith there would be no living in this world we couldn't even eat hash with any safety.

— Josh Billings

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles safe on her nose all the time.

— Josh Billings

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.

— Josh Billings

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.

— Josh Billings

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

— Josh Billings

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.

— Josh Billings

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

— Josh Billings

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

— Josh Billings