Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-07-05
Sayings by Josh Billings.

Men Of excellent judgment often have
the least executive ability.
If [ must have either a weak friend
or violent enemy, | say, give me the
enemy
There is no limit to the vanity of man.
When he makes a center shot, he tells you
:" that he can beat that if he has only a
mind to try"
True courage never gives up until it gets
beaten, out then gives up gracefully
The great trouble with most thinking
people is they are hunting after great
truths, and overlooking the little ones /;
all the great truths can be counted on
your fingers, while the little ones are as
numerous as the moments of time
The man who forgives and don't forget
compounds at the rate of fifty cents on the
dollar
1t is the easiest kind of thing to define
a gentleman; a strictly honest man is al
ways gentleman.
POliteness never makes any plumbers :;
it often gets snEbbed but never gets
beaten.
There are plenty of people who won't
learn anything, even by experience; they
are 6uttlng against stone walls all their
lives, and never find out that the stone
wall is the hardest until at last they have
butted out their brains
Ambition has no friendships; after it
has reached the top round in the ladder of
fame it is anxious to pull the ladder up
after it.
There never was woman yet but what
would rather look up to her husband, and
who never looked down upon him until
she was obliged to.
There is one thing that is harder for some
people to learn, and even to stick to than
the Ten Commandments, and that is to al
ways shut a door after them when they
60 out.
Don't despise your poor relations; they
may become rich some time, and it will
be awkward then to explain things to
them.
Obituary notices, to be of any value,
must be true, and it is too often the case
that if they are true they are of no value.
Pluck has won many battle that it had
no right to.
One of the best trades that any man
could make would be to swap off what
he thinks he knows for what he does not
know.
There is no man that can give a very ap-
proXlmate guess of the actual amount of
good or evil there is in him.
Take what we enjoy in this life and add
to 1t what we suffer, then divide by what
we deserve, and we shall find the quotient
just about right.
A mans passions are his steam power,
but he must keep his hand on the throttle
valve all the time
The very best listeners we have are
those who have the best right to do the
talking.
There is very often less danger in fac
ing difficulties than in trying to avoid
them; so, in battle more men are lost in
the retreat than in the fight.
Young man, after you have lived about
thirty years longer you won't know but
about half as much as you know now; but
what you do know will be worth twice as
much to you.
If you are going to do man a favor,
do it at once; this pulling a man out of
the lire by inches, when you can just as
we'll do 1t at jerk, is the worst kind of
cruelty.
Wise men are never stubborn; they are
the only ones who can afford not to be.
What a mean trait it is in the human
character that we always dispise those the
most whom we can cheat the easiest.
The only way to get to Heaven is by
the overland route. We can't fly there;
we have to take the main turnpike. paw
our toll, carry a pack beside, and travel
an honest heel-and-toe race.
An honest man can't disguise his char
acter; dishonest one sometimes can
N. 7. Weekly.