Posts Tagged 'Josh Billings'

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 11/25/09

There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.“   — Josh Billings

(This guy had to have influenced both Will Rogers and Mark Twain.  If only he had made it to the 20th Century!  I’m pretty sure he’d come up more often, and in more places, than just in the cryptoquote.) —   YUR

(Late) Cryptoquote Spoiler – 07/17/09

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.“   — Josh Billings

(This exact line of thinking has always kept me from pursuing religious studies.) —   YUR

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 06/08/09

There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is twins.“   — Josh Billings

(I bet old Josh wouldn’t be all Aw shucks!  Ain’t that sweet! – like so many of our current brain dead pundits and reporters are – when it comes to the Octomom.  What’s a quaint and clever way to call somebody a parasite???) —   YUR

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 06/02/09

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant but we can’t dodge a fly.”   —   Josh Billings

(I bet ol’ Josh and Mr. Twain and Will Rogers have welcomed George Carlin into their celestial fraternity.  I know George wasn’t a big believer in the afterlife, but I think they’d all get along like gangbusters.)   —  YUR

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 03/20/09

Every man has a right to his opinion, provided it agress with ours.”   —   Josh Billings

Cryptoquote Spoiler 02/25/09

It is very easy to manage your neighbor’s business, but our own sometimes bothers us.”   —   Josh Billings