Josh Billings1818–1885- Often credited to Mark Twain
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Often credited to George Bernard ShawAs scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873) (p. 235)
- Josh Billings’ Old Farmer’s Allminax, “January 1871” (1870)
I don’t care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain’t so.
“Sollum Thoughts”. in Everybody’s Friend: Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia & Proverbial Philosophy of Wit & Humor (1874)- Josh Billings on Ice, and Other Things (1868), Ch. XXIV, “Perkussion Caps”, p. 89
