Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. – Josh Billings
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. – Josh Billings
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. – Josh Billings
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. – Josh Billings
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. – Josh Billings
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. – Josh Billings
All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North Mountain. In summer it is a sort of complacent purr, as the breezes stroke down its sides; but in winter always the same low, sullen growl. – John Burroughs, “The Snow-Walkers,” 1866