Josh Billings - Day Quotes

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What should we do if it want for the churches? There is a plenty of people who can't worship God only in a church. If they were out in a field on the Sabbath day they would at once become lawless, and fall to digging out woodchucks or hunting for bumblebees' nests.

Josh Billings
There are people who don't do anything but watch their symptoms. I have seen dogs act just as sensible, I have seen a rat terrier watch the symptoms of a knot hole, in a board fence, all day, for some rat to come out, but no rat came out.

Josh Billings
I have studied my own character, and my own impulses for 39 years closely, and I can't tell to day (to save a bet) whether I am an honest and true man or not — if there is anybody who knows about this matter I wish they would address me a letter, enclosing a postage blister.

Josh Billings
It is comparatively easy to repent of the sins that we have committed, but to repent of those which we intend to commit, is asking too much of any man, now days.

Josh Billings
I think that a hen who undertakes to lay 2 eggs a day must necessarily neglect some other branch of business.

Josh Billings
Give every one you meet, my boy, the time of day and half the road, and if that don't make him civil don't waste any more fragrance on the cuss.

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7 per cent haz no rest, nor no religion, it works nights, and Sundays, and even wet days.

Josh Billings
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