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Josh Billings était écrivain américain.

✵ 21. avril 1818 – 14. octobre 1885
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Josh Billings: Citations en anglais

“I don't kno az i want tew bet enny money, and giv odds, on the man, who iz alwus anxious tew pray out loud, every chance he kan git.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“Nature never makes blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.”

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Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)

“Thare iz sich a thing az being alwus too quick--i am one ov that kind miself, i alwus miss a rale rode train bi being thare a haff an our too soon.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“A man's reputashun iz something like hiz coat, thare iz certain kemikals that will take the stains and grease spots out ov it, but it alwus haz a second-handed kind ov a look, and generally smells strong ov the kemikals.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“I had rather be a pot-bellied seed cowcumber, flung carelessly on a wood pile to ripen, than tew be an old bachelor.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“Don't mistake vivacity for wit, thare iz about az mutch difference az thare iz between lightning and a lightning bug.”

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Josh Billings' Old Farmer's Allminax, "January 1871" http://books.google.com/books?id=sUI1AAAAMAAJ&q=%22Don't+mistake+vivacity+for+wit+thare+iz+about+az+mutch+difference+az+thare+iz+between+lightning+and+a+lightning+bug%22&pg=PT30#v=onepage (1870)

“I wouldn't undertake tew korrekt a mans sektarian views enny quicker than i would tell him which road tew take at a 4 corners, when i didn't know miself which waz the right one.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“I kno plenty ov folks who are so kondem kontrary, that if they should fall into the river, they would insist uopon floating up stream.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“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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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain't so.”

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" Sollum Thoughts http://books.google.com/books?id=7rA8AAAAYAAJ&q=%22tew+know+nothing%22#v=snippet&q=%22tew%20know%20nothing%22&f=false". in Everybody's Friend: Josh Billing's Encyclopedia & Proverbial Philosophy of Wit & Humor (1874)
Variant:
I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Variante: I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

“Giv every one you meet, my boy, the time ov day and halff the road, and if that dont make him civil dont waste enny more fragrance on the cuss.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“Thare iz this mutch kan be sed in favour ov good-breeding, it iz the only thing that kan make a phool endurable.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“Genuine grief iz like penitence, not klamorous but subdued; sorrow from the hous tops and penitence in a market place shows more ambishun than piety.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“About one haff the pitty in this world iz not the result ov sorrow, but satisfackshun that it aint our hoss that haz had hiz leg broke.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“There iz only one good substitute for the endearments ov a sister, and that iz the endearments ov sum other pheller's sister.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“Natur duz awl her big and little jobs without making enny furse; the earth goes around the sun, the moon changes, the eklipses, and the pollywog, silently and taillessly, bekums a frog, but man kant even deliver a small-sized 4th ov July orashun without knocking down a mountain or two, and tareing up three or four primeval forests by the bleeding rutes.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided—it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.”

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Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)

“Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust”

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Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)

“Mankind loves misterys--a hole in the ground, excites mor wonder than a star in the heavens.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“Pedantry iz the science ov investing what little yu know in one kind ov perfumery, and insisting upon sticking that under every man's knose whom you meet.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“I hate grate talkers; i had rather hav a swarm of bees lite onto me.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“As a gineral thing, when a woman wares the britches, she has a good rite tew them.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“Thare iz a grate deal ov charity in this world so koldly rendered that it fairly hurts, it iz like lifting a drowning man out ov the water bi the hair ov the hed, and then letting him drop on the ground.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“Every man should kno sumthing ov law--if he knows enuff tew keep out ov it, he iz a prety good lawyer.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“Take awl the prophecys that hav cum tew pass, and awl that hav caught on the center, and failed tew cum tew time, and make them up in an average, and yer will find, that buying stock, on the Codfish Bank ov Nufoundland, at 50 per cent, for a rise, iz, in comparison, a good spekulatiff bizziness.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“Menny people spend their time trieing tew find the hole whare sin got into this world--if two men brake through the ice into a mill pond, they had better hunt for sum good hole tew git out, rather than git into a long argument about the hole they cum tew fall in.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“Familiarity breeds kontempt.”

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This only applies tew men, not tew hot bukwheat slapkakes, well buttered and sugared.
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

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