Josh Billings

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am read more

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most concerned of the first time.

In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.

In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.