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

— Josh Billings

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

— Josh Billings

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

— Josh Billings

There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.

— Josh Billings

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

— Josh Billings

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

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

— Josh Billings

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

— Josh Billings

The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.

— Josh Billings

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.

— Josh Billings