The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-06-17
SAM JONES' PfTHY SAYINGS.


thirty cents dozen.
Every bar room is recruiting Of
flee for hell.
Sow whisky and you'll reap drunk
ards.
Christ won't stay in a house with a
cellar full of whisky.
There is such a thing as a race
running out in dudes, and God knows
I'm glad of it.
The most demoralizing and damn
ing thing and the most insidious is
the city club.
I've seen men converted from the
barrooms and from every place on
earth, but never, never, never have [
seen member of a city club con-
verified.
never saw a frst-class billiard
player who was worth the powder
and lead to kill him.
What is town woman but coun-
try woman with Sunday clothes on?
I'd rather be dead than be in fash
ion.
Religion don't help a fellow to quit
his meanness, but it helps him to
stay quit.
Doubts are but the children of sin.
N
Repentance is quitting your mean
ness.
I'm not muddy physician, and
m not kin to any.
lnfdelity is nine-tenths mouth.
An honest man who's seeking after
God is as sure of heaven as the man
who's on full tilt to glory.
I've got as much respect for these
fellows in stripped clothes as | have
for you who profess Christianity and
hop around at every tap of the devils
| drum.
It's not whether you are pretty,
smart or rich, but whether you are
consecrated.
If ever my daughters cut off any of
their skirts | don't want them to cut
from the top.
There's many an honest fool-and
after all that's the best class.
I'm sorry for fellow who's got
nothing but mOney-when that's out
he's out.
If you won't pay your debts no
body will pay you.
would rather do anything than
stand up before the tongue of mad
woman.
The biggest fool l know is the wo-
man who marries a man knowing all
the time that he's dissipated.
God gave a woman little fist and
never adjusted her life and charac-
ter to guns and pistols.
You make the coffee bitter and get
angry because your husbands say it
amt sweet,
You can't control your husband by
argument and dictation.
am sorry for any woman who will
sit and hear gossip about her hus-
band.
The switch is good in its place,
but its place is on the tree.
A gentle horse works anywhere;
so does gentle Methodist or Pres
byterian.
Find u man better than yourself;
if you can't find one, stay by your
self, though you may be with the big
gest rascal in town.
A creed is but the skin Of truth
set up and stuffed with something
sometimes with sawdust and sand.
You can't follow creed; its got
no legs. You have got to tote it.
When a preacher and a church
haven't got much religion they must
have a creed.
There's many soul in heaven to-
day who never saw creed or heard
Of one.
You can't argue man into reli-
gion, and a man can't argue his way
into heaven.
| like man who can prove by his
wife that he's got religion.
The way to get more grace is to
use what you've got.
Whenever a fellow is out of Job
he sits right down and goes to telling
lies on Sam Jones.
Some men are always looking back
to the time of their conversion in
stead of forward to their duty.
He who dresses, eats and sleeps
wisely is physically religious.
A true gentleman never swears.
If the devil wants to catch an ordi-
nary sinner he covers up his hook,
but if he is trying to catch profane
sinner he drops down the plain hook
and the fool grabs it.
God gave you six day and one to
keep hallowed and you want Go steal
that one.
| like a blooded horse, but ( de-
spise the fool who will get on him
and run him to hell.
I'd as soon catch my son with
sheep on his back as a lottery ticket
in his pocket.