Josh Billings Quotes - Page 14

• Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

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  Writing, Poverty, Wealth

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• ...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.

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  Horse, Virtue, Discourse

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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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• 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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• Sekts and creeds ov religion, are like pocket compesses, good enuff tu pinte out the direction, but the nearer the pole yu git thewuss tha wurk.

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  Pockets, Creeds

  Josh Billings (1870). “Josh Billings, His Book of Sayings”, p.114

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

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  Men, Enemy, Poor

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

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  Practice, Doe, Looks

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