Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
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… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Taking from others never results in prosperity. If we steal from others, life will steal from us. There is an incredible abundance… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of it's value till we loose it — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often; it is because there is so much fun n the making up. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Its harly my dog A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
