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Josh Billings Quotes

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Man Enough Years Suffer Numb

Work is a great blotter up. It stops you thinking, which is useful. No, it stops you feeling.

Work Great Thinking You Feeling Up

The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.

Attitude Character Yourself Humility

We now know that we imprint information during the day. We sort of - that seed is planted there within the brain during the day. In other words, we learn information. But we also know that that vision that was planted in the brain still remains in the sound of silence, in this - in the dark of night.

Vision Day Words Silence Brain Seed

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Work Learning Wisdom Man Born Wiser

When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: 'Don't you feel pressure on you?' I said: 'Want to know something? I'm worried about the guy who's going to have to replace me.'

Future Me Pressure Feel You Know

I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas.

Road Better Kind Watching Nuts Soap

I think to the extent Republicans depart from the historic commitment, we do so at our peril.

Commitment Think Our I Think Peril

I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing.

Language Understanding You Sometimes

I love 'River's Edge.'

Love River Edge I Love

Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.

William Whipple

Business Important Now Three Within

The L.A. rap scene is popping again because rappers stopped saying 'West Coast.' Nobody says that anymore. Fans of L.A. music were reaching and saying, 'This is West Coast music,' because nobody else liked it.

Music Saying Nobody Rap Fans West

It's like I've been in music school my whole life.

Life Music School Whole Been Like

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