Josh Billings Quotes

    Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
    Josh Billings
    Wisdom
    The wheel that squeaks the loudestIs the one that gets the grease.
    Josh Billings
    Business
    I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain't so.
    Josh Billings
    Knowledge
    The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.
    Josh Billings
    Politics
    It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to commit, is asking tew mutch ov enny man, now days.
    Josh Billings
    Ethics
    Tew bring up a child in the wa he should go—travel that wa yourself.
    Josh Billings
    Family
    Don't mistake vivacity for wit, thare iz about az mutch difference az thare iz between lightning and a lightning bug.
    Josh Billings
    Wisdom
    Most people when they cum tew yu for advice cum tew hav their own opinyuns strengthened, not correkted.
    Josh Billings
    Wisdom
    As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.
    Josh Billings
    Life

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