Josh Billings Quotes - Page 10

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• Keep a cow, and then the milk won't have to be watered but once.

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  Cows, Milk

  "Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day".

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• When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.

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  People, Looks, Return

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• A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

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  Broken, Secret, Dollar Bills

  "Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings". 1865.

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• A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

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  Blow, Firsts, Hornets

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• A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.

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  Writing, Sentences

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• If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

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  Life, Faith, Safety

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

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  Art, Hunting, Ideas

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• If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.

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  Motivational, Believe, Ability

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• Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.

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  Cost, Pity

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.164

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• When you do laugh, open your mouth wide enough for the noise to get out without squealing, throw your head back as though you were going to be shaved, hold on to your false hair with both hands and then laugh till your soul gets thoroughly rested.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Hands

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• Biography is the best form of history.

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  Biographies, Form

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• It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.

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  Doctors, Sick, Healthy

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• About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

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  Art, Originality, Honest

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

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  Forgiveness, Jobs, Men

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• Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.

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  Business, Air, Long

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• Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.

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  Love, Sight, Machines

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• We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.

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  Hate, Advice, Rebellious

  "Josh Billings, His Book of Sayings".

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• No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

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  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Comedy

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• It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.

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  Lying, Fall, Men

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• Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

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  Mother, Law, Boards

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• The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

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  Life, Rich, Poor

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• The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

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  World, Philosopher, Mystery

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