“I don't suppoze thare haz ever lived a man without a single virtew. Even Judas Iskariot "went and hanged himself."”
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
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“I don't rekoleckt now ov ever hearing ov two dogs fiteing unless thare waz a man or two around.”
Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
“Misanthropy don't pay--thare aint no man living whoze hate the world cares one cuss for.”
Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author
Source: Waking Up With the Duke
Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821) Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat
"Of Experiment and of the Genius of Discoveries," p. 37
An Examination of the Philosophy of Francis Bacon (1836)
“No man, I suppose, ever admits to himself candidly that he gets his living in a dishonourable way.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926)
“when skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man”
E.E. Cummings book 1 × 1
Source: 1 x 1 (1944), XX
“Man lives measuring, and he’s the measure of nothing. Not even of himself.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
El hombre vive midiendo, y no es medida de nada. Ni de sí mismo.
Voces (1943)