What did Josh Billings mean by: We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences. - Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ There are two kinds of fools: those who can’t change their opinions and those who won’t. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Change, Fool, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Josh Billings, Heart, Soul, Work, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Advice, Oil, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ It’s not ignorance does so much damage; it’s knowin’ so derned much that ain’t so. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Damage, Ignorance, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ If a man is right, he can’t be too radical; if he is wrong, he can’t be too conservative. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Conservative, Radical, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Josh Billings, Law, Satire, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ It’s not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Josh Billings, Deep Thought, Humor, Rich, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Silence never makes any blunders. Feraz Zeid, October 1, 2023December 26, 2023, Josh Billings, Blunders, Silence, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. - Maxwell Perkins Editor · USA