Josh Billings Quotes - Page 13

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• It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

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  Fall, Fruit Juice, Squash

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• Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

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  Wise, Made

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• A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

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  Happiness, Way, Fit

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• The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.

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  Dog, Curse

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

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  Letting Go, Advice, Tails

  Josh Billings (1913). “Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised”

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• Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

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  Poverty, Kind, Pity

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.232

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• Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

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  Men, Wrinkles, Habit

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• It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to commit, is asking tew mutch ov enny man, now days.

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  Men, Asking, Sin

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.232

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• There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.

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  Thinking, Vanity, World

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.221

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• Clothes form the intellect of the dandy.

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  Clothes, Form, Intellect

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• Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.

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  Running, Disposition, Ill

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• Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

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  Jobs, Passion, Vanity

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• Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

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  Running, Advice, Debt

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• And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together.

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  Bird, Together, Example

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• It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often; it is because there is so much fun n the making up.

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  Best Love, Fun, Lovers

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• Truth is the edict of God.

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  Truth, Truth Is

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• Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

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  Men, Law, Enough

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• Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

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  Convince Us, Desire, Praise

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

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  Doe, Genius, Cabbage

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• Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.

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  Advice, Example, Prove

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.216

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• Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Stupidity, Unconscious

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• Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust

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  Time, Blow, Four

  'Josh Billings, his Sayings' (1865).

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• If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

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  Hypocrite, Thinking, Heaven

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• Faith is the soul riding at anchor.

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  Anchors, Soul, Riding

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.336

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• There's one good thing about tight shoes; they make you forget your other troubles.

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  Shoes, Forget You, Trouble

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