What did Josh Billings mean by: Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners. Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,–to be intelligently simple. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Intelligence, Learning, Simplicity, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take. Read explanation Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Advice, Difficulty, Perception, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Expense, Repair, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ There are very few good judges of humor, and they don’t agree. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Disagreement, Humor, Subjectivity, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Disappointment, Passion, Revenge, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. Author, July 31, 2023January 2, 2025, Josh Billings, Common Sense, Genius, Instinct, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition. Author, October 29, 2023January 2, 2025, Josh Billings, Behavior, Disposition, Negativity, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. Read explanation Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Empowerment, Equality, Leadership, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
I don’t understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it’s a mind-altering possibility. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune! Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
