Josh Billings Quotes

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Josh Billings

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.

John Eisenhower

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I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.

John McLaughlin

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Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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I never expected to become a director. It never occurred to me to come to America, to Hollywood. It's all been a wonderful accident. I'm still amazed every time I finish a film.

Stephen Frears

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The Spanish league has better individual players than the German league. However, in Germany, there are more teams that are uncomfortable to play against because they are more aggressive than teams in Spain.

Toni Kroos

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We need to save the country.

Ron DeSantis

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There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.

Rosemary Mahoney

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I think that our weakness is understanding that when we go to war, we go to war to win.

Michael T. Flynn

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When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place.

Christopher Gist

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Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical.

Colm Toibin

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More black women are in the professional-managerial field, and they don't want to look like the guys sitting next to them in pinstriped suits.

Linda Johnson Rice

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