The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-05-19
JOSH BILLINGS PAPERs-REmARKs.


When a man hain't emmy thing to
say, then IL good time tew keep still
there il but few people who have
missed a good opportunity few ven
tilate their opinyuns. sa
just about az cerimonys creep into
one end ov church piety creeps out
ov the other.
Those who have the fewest failings
see the fewest in others.
Pride is az universal as hair. on the
head-sum are proud of their virtews,
and sum oy their vices, and sum, hav-
ing neither themselves, brag on other
peoples.
Love looks through telescope en-
Wy through microscope.
An industrious man is seldom bad
man. So 1
Men will believe their pashuns
quicker than they will their conscien-
ces, and yet their pashuns are general
ly wrong, and their conscierces alwus
right.
1t amt much trouble tew bear the
pain of sum boldly else's lame back,
but tew hav the lame back oneself
amt so stylish.
Despising fortune is not sure way
to gain her favors-pipe to her, and
she may dance to you.
Take all the interest out of this
world, and there wouldn't be friend
ship enough left for seed.
Sekrets are a burden, and that is
one reason why we are anxious to
hav somebody help us carry them.
1 hev seen men so full of vanity
that they could not endure the sight
ov peacock with his tail on parade.
The most excruciating bore / know
is excessive politeness.
FL was called to describe Eloquence
I should do it az 1 would suit Of
clothes "ov sailable tertars and q
perfect fto
Gravity iz no more an evidence oy
wisdom than it is oy i'll natur.
The greater the man the less hiz
virtews appear and the larger hil
faults. :
Don't mistake vivacity for wit
there is just as much difference az
there il between tightening and &
Tightening bug. i
No man ever undertook tew alter
hiz natur by substituting sum inven
shun ov hiz own but what he made {
botch job ov it.
Religion in these days IL composed
ov vanity and piety, and each mar
and woman IL better judge of the
proportion than I am.
Lovers feed upon mysteries, bu
after they are married and the porE
and beans are brought on they hev
fair chance tew test the real quality
ov their appetights.
tew all fori it may be our turn next. =
I don't know ov emmy thing tina
would use the whole oy us up NOR
thoroughly, than tew hev all ou
wishes gratified.
There is kinds ov obstinacy, oh
stinacy in the right, and obstinacy il
the wrong one il the strength ov
CRATE mind, and the other is th
strength of a little one.
Lazyness IL like molasses, sweet an
sticky. f1
I think a bear in his claws is prefer
able tew one with gloves on. ~
I kant tell now which l admir-
least, an old coqnet or a young prudt
Misanthropy don't pay-there ain
no man living whoze hate the worl
cares cuss for, !.
Rash men ken be korrekted, but
don't pay to labour with a phool.
The man who has never enjoyed tn
pleazure of being forgiven haz misse
one ov the greatest luxurys ov life.
I have seen coquettry that had n
more malice in it than eve lamb o
the green.
When l cum acrost man who u
ters hiz opinyuns with immense d.
liberashun, and after they are uttere
they don't amount to anything,
write him down mysterious phool,
The CRATE cry :ov the world no.
daze is, g What's trumps."
Love IL weakness but it IL IL
same kind ov a weakness that repen
ance il, both ov them are creditable
our natures. <
A man is hiz own best friend an
worst enemy.
jealousy il one of loves parasite
We can endure vices in the youn
that we should despise in the old
(please make note of this old phe
lows.l E All 4
Friendship is like earthenwarc, if
il broken it kan be be-mended, but 10y
IL like mirror, once broken, that enc
it. - :
I don't know ov. any thing on Il
face of the earth more remorsele
= than Z per cent. interest.
There IL great deal of differen'
between enduring misfortunes becau
we expect to, and enduring them b
cause we are obliged to; one is p
shiunce, the other is mere sullennes
When 1 see an old man marry
young wife, consider him startir
out on bust, for I am reminded {
the parable in the Bible about he
wine and old bottle. a
An Indian stole blanket from
Missouri river steamboat in Montan
last summer, which was infected wi
smallpox. Seven hundred and for
Indians have changed their huntir
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