Josh Billings Quotes - Page 14

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• Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.

  Josh Billings

  Spring, Heart, Water

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• Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.

  Josh Billings

  Beauty, Beautiful, Handsome

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• It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.

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  Philosophy, Men, Laughing

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• If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

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  Men, Perfection, World

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• Clothes form the intellect of the dandy.

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  Clothes, Form, Intellect

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

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  Garden, Scratches, Chickens

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

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  Practice, Doe, Looks

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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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• 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.

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  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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• 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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• 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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• Fun is a sugar-coated physic.

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  Fun, Sugar

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

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  Remember, Forget, Prophecy

  Affurisms (1865).

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