Josh Billings Quotes

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 21, 1818 - October 14, 1885

Topics

Common SenseDoingSeeingDoneSense

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

Jeff Goodell

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You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.

Johnny Bench

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I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.

John Shelton Reed

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It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

Tom Hiddleston

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The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

Mary MacLane

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Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

Matisyahu

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When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you've got to set those phones down.

Michelle Obama

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Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in.

Jon Bon Jovi

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Any performance I do, I give 110 percent.

DMX

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My life takes me all over the world, and I know how hard that can be on a relationship.

Drew Barrymore

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We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.

Donald Cram

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The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.

Donatella Versace

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