Josh Billings - People Quotes

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There are but dreadful few people who can talk ten minutes to you without lugging into the conversation their back or stomach aches.

Josh Billings
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
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Josh Billings
There is but few people in this world underrated.

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Life is short, but if you notice the way most people spend their time, you would suppose that life was everlasting.

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I am poor, and I am glad that i am, for i find that wealth makes more people mean than it duz generous.

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There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying.

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Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

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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.

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When I come across people who are perfectly crazy for ventilation, I say to myself, "that critter was brought up in a windmill."

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Too much religion is worse than none at all. You can't show me a country that has existed yet, where the people, all of them, professed one religion and persecuted all other kinds, but what the religion ruined the country.

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Many people spend their time trying to find the hole where sin got into this world—if two men brake through the ice into a mill pond, they had better hunt for sum good hole to get out, rather than get into a long argument about the hole they come to fall in.

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The man who pitys everyboddy, wants watching, for the chances are that he iz gitting phatt slily on other peoples misfortunes.

Josh Billings
People of good sense are those whose opinions agree with ours.

Josh Billings