Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-19
WHOLE NO. 563.
Bulbs.
Josh Billings, in New York Weekly.

Bulbs.
Josh Billings, in New York Weekly.
I have seen people who were neither
good, bad, nor Indifferent.
He who disputes with fool is sure to
always come off second best.
The dog that barks at everything is the
poorest kind of watch dog.
A gentleman can't hide his true charac-
ter any more than loafer can.
The more laws people have, the less
likely they are to execute them.
The best way to overcome danger that
has been discovered yet is to face it.
Death is one of those kind of warriors
whom it is safer to face than to fly from.
If a man can't find happiness in himself
there isn't any use to hunt for it anywhere
else.
The man who talks and acts different
from anybody else is generally conceited
fool.
The man who can control his wants is
the only one who can control his happi-
ness.
Eptaphs are like circus bills; there is
great deal in the bills that is never per-
formed.
The hardest thing know of is to argue
againsta success; it is like kicking against
the bricks
| The great art of conversation is to
know aehat to say, aohere to begin and
aohea to stop.
1t don't pay to be mean, no man ever
did mean thing yet without being dis
satisfied with it.
! In most arguments the truth is lost sight
Of the parties roll up their sleeves and 60
in simply to win.
/ contend that pity is of more conse-
quence to the one who gives it than to the
one who receives it.
The torments of the world make but
little impression on the man who is at
peace with himself.
The man who has got nothing but the
truth to tell always uses the first words he
can lay his hands on.
There is so. much lngratitude among
mankind that l wonder there is any char
ity at all in the world
The most painful reflection of my life
was the time spent, when l was a boy,
waiting to be whipped.
suppose we ought to conceal our joys,
but think half the fun in being happy
consists in telling Of it.
The most odious compound l know OF
is wealth and snobbery; it is rather worse
than pride and poverty.
1t is good deal cheaper to work than
it is to beg; any man can earn two dollars
while he is begging one.
The lower down a man keeps the safer
he is, and when he gets six feet under
ground he is perfectly safe.
admire patience, but know lots of
people who are patient just because they
are too lazy to be anything else.
There is no greater fraud than artificial
happiness, and believe there is much
more of 1t than of the real kind
If man slips from the top round of
fame's ladder he has got to fall to the bot
tom; there is no halfway house.
How strange it IS that we should hate
those whom we have injured full as much
as we do those who have injured us.
There is but very little power to sar-
casm unless it has truth for its sting:
without truth it sinks into mere malice.
1t won't pay any man to fret about the
past, and the future will be sufficiently
provided for if we look well to the pres
ent.
4 traitor is common enemy, and
those who profit by treason despise him
! as much as those who suffer by it hate
him.
I don't believe there is one single man
living on the face of the earth from
whom all the restraints of the law could
be removed, with safety to himself and to
others.
There is great deal of bogus humility
floating around the most humble critter
you ever see is hornet who has lost his
stinger.
There is kind Of economy that don't
pay, it is the kind that people resort to
after they have squandered all their
money.
never have met a man yet who didn't
have a more comprehensive knowledge of
his neighbors' character than he did of
his own.
We should always remember this. that
while there is but few in the world dis
posed to help us there is not one but what
is able to hurt u.s.
Give every man you meet, my boy,
half the road and the time of day, and
you will be surprised to see how easy all
things will slip along
You will find plenty of men who are
red-hot to hunt tigers and wildcats, only
just muzzle the varmints and place them
ten OF fifteen miles off.
There are lots of able bodied people
lying around loose who might have pre-
served their importance if they had re-
mained fourth corporals, but making
them captains has ruined them for lite