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Josh Billings Quotes

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Hope Achieve Judgment Steal

There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book.

Writing Book Pen Special Hand Turn

Once every lunar eclipse, you should be able to see me smile!

Smile Me You See Eclipse Able

I tried to get Primal Scream to come over to America several times.

Steven Van Zandt

America Over Get Come Scream Tried

Parenthood and having kids puts you in touch with a whole other sort of sensitivity which is nothing but good. You feel more than you ever felt. You feel that vulnerability, but at the same time you wouldn't trade it for anything.

Good Time Feel You Nothing Touch

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

Socialism Capitalism Literature Hopes

I proposed to my wife on Brighton Beach, and she said yes. That's pretty romantic. Even though I forgot to go down on one knee because I was too busy trying to compose the question.

Romantic Beach Wife Busy Trying Go

Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.

Data Tax Will Income Tax Historical

If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.

Hope Die You Back Earth Want

My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.

Competition Sister Never Felt Were

People call my family a dynasty, but I'm not sure what a dynasty actually is. And I don't feel part of one. It belies the truth of my real upbringing, which wasn't grand at all, and it flies in the face of the fact that, at root, I'm just a jobbing actor.

Family Truth People Face Feel Actor

Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.

Enough Stage Without Out Big Stigma

I take medications every morning and night - they're my breakfast, and they're my dessert. I love them.

Love Morning Breakfast Night Dessert

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