Smyrna times., 1869-10-20
SAYINGS BY JOSH BILLINGS.

Benevolence il the cream that rises on the
milk ov human kindness.
Courage without discretion IL a ram with
horns on both ends-he will hav more htes on
hand than he kan we'll attend to.
Hunting after happiness il like hunting after |
a lost sheep III the wilderness when yu lind 1t |
the chances are that it IL skeleton.
There IL no more real satisfacksbonin laying |
up in yure buzzum an injury than there IL in
stuffing dead hornet, who haz stung you, and
keeping him tew look at.
Old friends are like old cheese, the strongest.
All money that IL well spent IL good In
vestment.
If we would all ov us take kare ov our own
souls, and let our neighbors alone, there would
be less time lost, and more souls saved.
Before | would preach the gospel az some
ministers are obliged to, for 45O dollars year,
would get a living as Nebudkenezzer did,
and let the congregashun go tew grass to.
Did yu ever hear a son Dragging about hlz
father, whose father could with justiss brag
about hiz son?
The man who never makes emmy mistakes,
like the anglewoIm, never gifts far away from
hiz hole.
4 brilliant blunder in a writer IL often one of
| hlz be-. hits.
never knu profound phool yet who did
not atfekt gravity, nor truly wiZe man whose
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laugh.
Prudery il nothing more than ccquetry-
gone to seed.
Truth haz hardly clothing enuff tew hide its
nakedness.
A pompous man il like full blown bladder /;
it il pure malice tew prick him.
Pity costs nothing-and aint worth nothing.
What men kant do they are apt to admire
they don't criticise mountain, be kause they
kant make one.
Poverty is one ov them kind ov misfortunes
that we all of us dread, but none ov us pity.
Thare IL lots ov people in this world who
covet misfortunes, jist for the luxury ov grunt
ing.
1t il comparatively easy TO repent ov the sins
that We have committed, but tew repent oN
, those which we intend tew commit is asking
tew mutch of emmy man nowadays.
, | thank God for one thing, and that IL, wher
everybuddy else il happy, | am sure to be.
Most men go thru life az rivers go tew th'
sea, by following the lay ov the ground,
y In youth we run into dlfhkultys, In old ag'
, difhkultys runs into us.
Times amt az they used to be''-this ha
bin the sollum and wise remark ov mankind
I ever since Adam was boy.
q Secrets are poor property at best, if yu cir
: culate them yu loze the interest on the invest
= ment.
) Prosecuted for the Devils sake, IL what sin
q ners git for their allegiance.
Sum people won't beleave emmy thing the,
. kant prove; the things [ can't prove are tn
= very things believe the most.
~ Pride never shows itself more disgustingl
p than in the pomp ov phuneral.
n Happiness il not idleness, but its spirit il a
I free from labor as the life of yearing heifel
j Good examples among the rulers are tn
best laws they kan enakt
10 A gentleman about town" IL one who pay
~ W cash for everything except hiz debts.
1Sf of Money il like charity, it kivverS multitud
- - ov sins.
- A pedant IL one who fills himself in a celli
~ ~ with the klam broth ov literature, and the
- - picks hiz teeth in the society ov the learned.
20 ~ There IL but little ceremony if emmy betwee
Il ! two wize men, but between a wize man and
=. n phool, ceremony IL the only thing that wi
- ,s make phool feel respectable.
u u When you find a man who IL very solisit1
d. about the welfare ov everybody, you ks
:. safely put him az one who IL hunting for
aff misfortune. York Weekly.