Josh Billings Quotes - Page 14

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

  Josh Billings

  Convince Us, Desire, Praise

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• Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.

  Josh Billings

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Unconscious

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• Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

  Josh Billings

  Love Is, Later In Life, Love Is Like

  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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• One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden.

  Josh Billings

  Garden, Scratches, Chickens

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• There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it.

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  People, Pleasure, Well Being

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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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• Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.

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  Practice, Doe, Looks

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• I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

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  Dog, Lying, Bulldogs

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• It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

  Josh Billings

  Learning, Science, Trouble

  "What We Don't Know About History Can Hurt Us" by John Stossel, www.foxnews.com. July 27, 2011.

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• Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

  Josh Billings

  Remember, Forget, Prophecy

  Affurisms (1865).

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• The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.

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  Men, Enemy, Poor

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• Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them.

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  Husband, Jealous, Thinking

  Josh Billings (186?). “Josh Billings: His Book of Sayings”

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• Fun is a sugar-coated physic.

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  Fun, Sugar

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• Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.

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  Running, Coquette, Fortune

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.151

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• There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.

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  Judging, Agree, Good Judges

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