Josh Billings Doe Quotations

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.

Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.

Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.

Everyone who does the best he can is a hero.

It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.