Quote #92
In youth we run into difficulties, in old age, difficulties run into us.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Josh Billings
- If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
- It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool; it's the things he does know, that ain't so.
- I have finally come to the conclusion that a good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.
- Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
- Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
- Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
- Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on what he is made of.