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~ Josh Billings Quotes ~
« on: January 29, 2015, 06:53:35 PM »
Josh Billings Quotes


The pen name of 19th century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw.
Josh Billings was the pen name of 19th century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw (21 April 1818 – 14 October 1885). He was perhaps the second most famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States in the second half of the 19th century after Mark Twain, although his reputation has not endured so well with later generations.

Here are some famous quotes by Josh Billings.




Faith is the soul riding at anchor.
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« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2015, 06:54:11 PM »
Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'.
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« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2015, 06:54:39 PM »
Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing.
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« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2015, 06:55:04 PM »
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
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« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2015, 06:55:30 PM »
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2015, 06:55:59 PM »
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
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« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2015, 06:56:37 PM »
Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.
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« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2015, 06:57:01 PM »
Be like a postage stamp-stick to one thing until you get there.
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« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2015, 06:57:59 PM »
Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.
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« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2015, 06:58:29 PM »
It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.
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« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2015, 06:58:57 PM »
Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
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« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2015, 06:59:22 PM »
Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.
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« Reply #12 on: January 29, 2015, 06:59:54 PM »
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
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« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2015, 07:00:21 PM »
Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.
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« Reply #14 on: January 29, 2015, 07:00:51 PM »
As scarce as truth is the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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