Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. – Josh Billings
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins. – Josh Billings

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. – Josh Billings
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins. – Josh Billings
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. – Josh Billings
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. – Josh Billings
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Whos sorry for a gnat or girl? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning