Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-07-30
Josh Billings Philosophy.

Every thing We find out we hav to
hunt for. except our iniquity; that
seems to find rs.
Kriticism il neble art, but thare il
none that haz sutch = pigheaded and
waspish set ov artists engaged in it.
1 luv a good hater, but insist upon
hiz giving me good reazons for It.
The old man luvs hiz dauter, the old
woman her son the best.
Men ov real genius never overwork,
nor kan they wear out their brains:
their phisikal strength may succomb,
their brain never.
Democracy liz kind ov artyfishall
bait that demagorges uze to ketch
gudgeons with.
A man kan liv on the bare neces
sarys ov life; so kan q mud turkle.
If man gifts bit twice bi the same
dog, he IL heap more to blame than
the dog liz.
The top round ov the ladder il a
hard one to stick to, aud an ugly one
to fall off FROM; I would reckomend
one about the middle.
1t IL az hard for man to change his
habits az to change his natur.
Beware ov the leaky man, for when
he haint got sekrets to tell, he will tell
lies.
They say cit liz but step from the
sublime to the ridikilus." l suppoze
this IL the reazon whi it liz so often
| taken.
l am AZ work now trieing to prove
what makes ono apple sweet and one
sour, aud just az soon az git thru
with this, and u thousand more Just
like it, | am going to try to prove that
the food did take place.
The real value oy thing konsists,
not in what it will bring, but in what
We ought to pay for it.
To marry abov or belo ones level, liz
= risky thing.
Good nonsense il the hardest kind ov
logik to beat.
Thare are two kind ov principal
phools in this world, thoze who kant
change their opinyuns and thoze who
wont.
like to see good order in the house
hold, but have se' housekeepers so
fastldious that they would keep a house
dirty all the year round cleaning it.
Cunning is very cheap edishun ov
wisdum, 1T develops among the ami
mails, and have even seen idiots who
| had it.
A yung sloven ends hi being filthy
old man.
However mizerly woman may be,
she seldum shows it in her bonnet.
1t allwuss bothers the devil to kno
on which side to attak bizzy man.
We see in others the virtues and
vices we hav got ourselfs, but We see
the vices the pla.nest.
There are bat few things Judged by
their merits, but rather by the way
that they affect our opinions or inter
ests.
| The men who have the strongest in
telect have the weakest memorys, they
trust more to invention than memory.
WHARF thare is q man who knows
how to do thing, and does it, there
are three who are satisfied by telling
how it ought to be done.
The top round ov the ladder IL
ticklish spot, yer are liable to fall emmy
time, and kant pix out the spot yer are
q going to strike.
| Nenny man who haz made fust
rate konstable haz split hiz milk bi be-
ing made deputy sheriff.
The man who haz no luv OF appliance
liz either an angel or an idiet, prob
ably the latter.
The CRATE mass ov mankind liv Just
az the birds do, from hand to mouth.
A man better have no creed at all
than to have one that he il always
anxious to fight for.
Jealousy sleeps with one eye open
and the other sjar.
Hope il the halfway house between
fear and fruition.
1t il difficult to define our happiness
without making it look suspicious.
The man who il original in manner,
IL generally more or less 80 in thought.