Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. – Josh Billings
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. – Josh Billings

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. – Josh Billings
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. – Josh Billings
Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel. – Josh Billings
Its not only the most difficult thing to know ones self, but the most inconvenient. – 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