Zitat des Tages von Josh Billings:
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
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.
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
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.
The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.