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Josh Billings, pseudonimo di Henry Wheeler Shaw , umorista statunitense.

✵ 21. Aprile 1818 – 14. Ottobre 1885
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Josh Billings: 112 citazioni8 Mi piace

Josh Billings frasi celebri

“I malvagi lavorano più duramente per andare all'inferno di quanto non facciano i giusti per andare in paradiso.”

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“La maggior parte delle persone si pente dei propri peccati ringraziando Iddio di non essere così malvagie quanto il prossimo loro.”

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Josh Billings Frasi e Citazioni

“È meglio farsi nemico un debole che averlo per amico.”

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“L'incredulità è la saggezza degli stupidi.”

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“La povertà è la matrigna del genio.”

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“La scienza è la letteratura della verità.”

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“Le necessità sono poche, ma i bisogni infiniti.”

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“Meno sappiamo, più sospettiamo.”

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“L'esperienza è una scuola dove l'uomo impara quanto è stato sciocco.”

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citato in Focus, n. 108, p. 204

Josh Billings: Frasi in inglese

“Them folks who are sudden, aint apt tew be solid; lively streams are alwus shallow.”

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“I don't suppoze thare haz ever lived a man without a single virtew. Even Judas Iskariot "went and hanged himself."”

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“If we would all ov us take kare ov our own souls, and let our nabors alone, thare would be less time lost, and more souls saved.”

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“"Familiarity breeds kontempt." This only applies tew men, not tew hot bukwheat slapkakes, well buttered and sugared.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

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

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“If I had 4 fust rate dogs i would name the best one "Doubtful" and the other 3 "Useless."”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“I don't beleaf in bad luck being sot for a man, like a trap, but i hav known lots ov folks, who if thare waz enny fust rate bad luck lieing around loose, would be sure tew git one foot in it enny how.”

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“I hav studdyed mi own karakter, and mi own impulses for 39 years clussly, and i kant tell to day (to save a bet) whether i am an honest and trew man or not--if thare iz enny boddy who knows about this matter i wish they would address me a letter, enklosing a postage blister.”

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“Rather than not hav faith in enny thing, i am willing tew be beat 9 times out ov 10.”

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“Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.”

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Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)

“Politeness iz often wasted, but it iz a good and cheap mistake tew make.”

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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“Too mutch religion iz wuss than none at all. Yu kant sho me a kuntry that haz existed yet, whare the people, all ov them, professed one religion and persekuted all other kinds, but what the religion ruined the country.”

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“I dont never hav enny trouble in regulating mi own kondukt, but tew keep other pholks straight iz what bothers me.”

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“Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.”

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Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)

“I think that a hen who undertakes tew lay 2 eggs a day must necessarily neglekt sum other branch ov bizzness.”

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“What should we do if it want for the churches? Thare iz a plenty ov people who kant worship God only in a church. If they were out in a field on the Sabbath day they would at once bekum lawless, and fall to digging out woodchucks or hunting for bumblebees' nests.”

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“If we giv up our minds tew little things we never shall be fit for big ones. I knew a man once who could ketch more flies with one swoop ov his hand than enny boddy else could, and he want good at ennything else.”

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“Cunning iz very apt tew outwit itself. The man who turned the boat over and got under it tew keep out ov the rain, waz one ov this kind.”

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“I beleave in the universal salvashun ov men, but I want tew pick the men.”

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“Poor human natur iz too full ov its own grievances tew have enny pitty to spare,--if yu show a man a big bile on yure arm, he will tell yu he had one twice az big az that, on the same spot, last year.”

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“Thare are but dredful phew people who kan talk ten minnits tew yu without lugging into the conversashun their bak or stummuk akes.”

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“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”

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Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)

“The grate desire ov mi life iz tew amuze sumboddy. I had rather be able to set the multiplikashun table tew sum lively tune than tew hav bin the author ov it.”

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“Poverty is the stepmother of genius.”

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Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)

“I hope i shall never hav so much reputashun that i shan't feel obliged to be alwus civil.”

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Origine: Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“Marrying for buty iz a poor spekulashun, for enny man who sees yure wife, has got just about az mutch stock in her as yu have.”

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“Awl human happiness is conservatiff; 2 thirds ov the pleasure in sliding down hill consists in drawing the sled back. I don't serpoze thare would be enny fun in sliding down a hill 34 miles long.”

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“Men are often praized for their sagassity, but all the fore sight in the world kant tell a dubble yelked egg untill it iz broken.”

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“Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.”

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