The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-11-20
JOSH BILLINGS PAPERS
PUDDIN AND MILK,

SEES ne haint got, aud what he leaves behind
him he never had.
Good phisck is like fidde-it furnish
es the tune while nature cuts the pigeon
wing and cures the patient.
Caution, though very often wasted, is a
good risk TO take.
Pity is about the meanest wash that one
can offer another. | had. rather have a
ten dollar greenback that had boen torn in
two twice and pasted together, than to have
oil the pity there iz on the upper side of the
earth-pity is nothing more than a quiet
satisfaction tha. am a great deal better
oph than you am, and that | intend to keen
so.
Fortune IL like coquette, fyou don't
run after her she will run after you.
Did you ever hear very rich man sing
III was going to paint picktur of
Faith, Affection and Honesty, would
paint mi dog looking up in mi face and wag.
gen his ,al.
The devil is a mean kuss; he never
keeps his own promises, but always makes
us keep ours.
Truth iz az artless az child and az pur
swasive.
There IL nothing in this life that men
pay so hi price for az they do Tor rpent.
ance
Laws are made, customs grow-laws
hev to be executed, customs execute them-
selis-laws begin where customs end
Men who have a good deal 10 say use the
fewest words
The road tew wealth IL highway, but
the road 70 knowledge IL byeway.
Shame il the dcing embers of virtue
l don't know of a better kuro for sorrow
than to pity somebody else.
Experience is a grinstun and it IL lucky
for us if we kan get frightened by it, not
ground.
We shouldn't forget one thing, that
there is not single fee simple on this fut>
stoo! even the best tooth in our head may
fall to akin before sun set and have to be
jerked out.
Ignorance is the wet nuss of prejudice.
Anticipation is constantly nibblng ex-
pekted pleasure until it consumes it; iiss
so the skoolboy who visited his basket du-
ring the forenoon too often has already dis.
kountcd his dinner.
1 never knu man taoubcd with melan.
kolly who had plenty to dew. and did it.
Good breeding, az 1 understand it, IL
giving every man his dew without robbing
yourself.
Natnr iz jist as hon est as a COW.
Talk little, but listen out loud, young
man, is the way to make the company sus-
pekt you of knowing crate deal more
than you aktualIy do.
If you should reduce the wants of the
people ov Nu York city down tew aktual
necessitys, and plain comforts, yu wood
have to double the perlice force tew keep
them from committing suicide.
People, when they find fault with their.
selfs, are generally more anxious to be
consoled than forgiven, and, therefore,
When man begins to confess .hiz sins to
me, and sez, "there amt no hope for him."
[ tell him he ought to know awl about it,
md l guess he is more than half right
What the world wants iz good examples,
not so much advice may be wrong, but ex.
lmples prove themselis.
Pride IL bogus. Adam at one time had
| rsght tew be proud, bat he let sin beat
lim out of hiz birthright.
A growing hen and a cackling ruester
ire very mesfortunate poultry in family.
Az a ginral thing, man who marrys
woman ov more uppercrust than himself
will find the woman more anxious tew pre-.
serve the distance between them than :
ew bring him up tew her grade or go down
o his level.
Titles are valuable; they make us &c.
Iuainted with menuy persons who othter-
wise would be lost among the rubbish.
Feaee il the soft and holy shadder that ;
yirtew casts.
Habits are like the wrinkles on mans
brow, if you will smoothe out the one. i
will smoothe out the other.
1t is darned sight easier tew find six
men who kan tell exactly how thing
'ught to be did than tew find one who will
10 il.
Marrying for money is meaner way few '