There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

—Josh Billings

Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.

—Josh Billings

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

—Josh Billings

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

—Josh Billings

Every man has his follies—and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

—Josh Billings

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

—G. K. Chesterton

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen.

—Hannah Arendt

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

—Lily Tomlin

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

—Abraham Lincoln

There are more of them than us.

—Herb Caen