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«Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed»
Author: Josh Billings
(Humorist)
| About:
Flattery
| Keywords:
cologne, cologne water, flattery, smelt, smelted, smelts, swallowed
«As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for»
«There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?»
Author: Josh Billings
(Humorist)
| Keywords:
guard, guards, Latin, Latin Proverb, proverb, significant
«It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.»
«Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland»
Author: Josh Billings
(Humorist)
| Keywords:
boarding, come in handy, drowning, handier, Handy, or else, pond, ponds, Save the Children, the pond, water dog
«There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.»
Author: Josh Billings
(Humorist)
| About:
Power,
Words
| Keywords:
great power, hitch, hitched, hitches, hitching
«There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins»
«Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer it goes with us»
«A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself»
Author: Josh Billings
(Humorist)
«Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer»
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