Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. – Josh Billings
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time. – Josh Billings
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. – Josh Billings
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. – Josh Billings
My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd. – Dave Brubeck