Dont ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it. – Josh Billings
Every man has his follies – and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. – Josh Billings
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear. – Josh Billings
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. – Josh Billings
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living. – Randolph Silliman Bourne