I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. – Josh Billings
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety. – Josh Billings
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. – Josh Billings
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. – Josh Billings
Well, Im in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. – Christopher Hitchens
I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness. – Julie Burchill