Josh BillingsThinkers

Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.

Adversity is a thing tha thas the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.

Ambition is like a treadmill in that you no sooner get to the end of it than you begin again.

Ambition is like hunger in that it obeys no law but its appetite.

Credit (financial) is like chastity, they can both stand temptation better than suspicion.

Exaggeration is so thorough in some people that they can't tell the truth without lying.

Fame is like a crop of Canada thistles, very easy to sew, but hard to reap.

Flattery is like perfume, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Forgiveness is the most complete of all kinds of revenge.

Greed is like a graveyard... it takes all that it can get and gives nothing back.