Quotes by Josh Billings

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

The best way to convince a fool he is wrong is to let him have his way.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

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