"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

"Don't borrow or lend, but if you must do one, lend."
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

"Every man has his follies-- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got."
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

"Friendship is like earthenware: once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror: once broken, that ends it."
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

"I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words."
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

"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 (1818 - 1885)

"It iz better tew know nothing than tew know what ain't so."
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)