Josh Billings Quotes

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Josh Billings

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

JobManHimWithoutOwnForgive

If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.

Jessye Norman

LifeGreatArtMyselfThinkLimit

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Jeremy Bentham

LawLibertyEvery

In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

John E. Walker

SocietyRoyalFellowElected

I find women more interesting to watch on a lot of levels, and I like the idea of being involved with something I would watch.

Max Minghella

WomenInterestingFindMoreWatch

It's so rare, actors who are not vain.

Sibel Kekilli

RareWhoVain

Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.

Ronnie James Dio

LifeMenDeathFateHandsCountry

All things which have a directing force here in the physical world cease to exist when one arrives in the imaginative world. If, on the physical plane, you imagine yourself to have done something you actually have not done, you will soon be persuaded by the facts of the physical world that this is not so. This is not the case in astral space.

Rudolf Steiner

YourselfSpaceWorldFactsYouDone

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.

Mary Garden

MyselfReadyNewDoneGroupWell

A barrel of laughs should be enough, but it's not. A good review is official and endures. A bad one is like a tub of Flora. It spreads easily and lasts for the whole festival.

Dominic Holland

GoodEnoughBadReviewWholeBarrel

I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache.

Christine Lakin

FriendAgeHopeDayMeLaugh

I cried, I was so overwhelmed to meet Michael Jackson.

Brandy Norwood

MeetOverwhelmedMichael Jackson

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.

William Odom

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