“O silêncio é um dos argumentos mais difíceis de refutar.”
citado em "Frases Geniais" - Página 151, Paulo Buchbaum, Jaguar - Ediouro Publicações, 2004, ISBN 8500015330, 9788500015335 440 páginas
Josh Billings, pseudônimo de Henry Wheeler Shaw foi um humorista.
“O silêncio é um dos argumentos mais difíceis de refutar.”
citado em "Frases Geniais" - Página 151, Paulo Buchbaum, Jaguar - Ediouro Publicações, 2004, ISBN 8500015330, 9788500015335 440 páginas
“Bom senso é a capacidade de ver as coisas como são e fazê-las como devem ser feitas.”
citado em "Foco: a revista do RN"., Edições 34-44 - Página 51, Dinâmica Editora e Marketing Ltda., 2004
“A verdade é rara, mas sua oferta sempre foi maior do que a demanda.”
Affurisms — Josh Billings: Seus Ditos (1865)
“Seja como um selo: sua utilidade depende de se ater a algo até chegar ao seu destino.”
observe the postage stamp ; its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing till its gets there.
citado em "The Chanute library and its friends" - Página 87, Chanute Tribune, 1907 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=17NAAAAAYAAJ - 102 páginas
Variante: Seja como um selo dos correios, cole-se a uma coisa até chegar ao seu destino.
“Nunca trabalhe antes do desjejum. Se você tiver de fazê-lo, coma seu desjejum primeiro.”
If you have anything to do before breakfast, eat your breakfast before you .
citado em "Annual report of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture ... and ... Annual report of the Experimental station ..." - Página 512, Michigan. State Dept. of Agriculture, Michigan State University. Agricultural Experiment Station - 1892
“Generalizando: se uma mulher usa calças na família, ela certamente tem o direito de fazê-lo.”
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
citado em "The Wordsworth book of humorous quotations" - Página 27, Connie Robertson - Wordsworth Editions, 1998, ISBN 1853267597, 9781853267598 - 381 páginas
“A vida não consiste em ter boas cartas na mão e sim em jogar bem as que se tem.”
citado em "Frases Geniais" - Página 85, Paulo Buchbaum, Jaguar - Ediouro Publicações, 2004, ISBN 8500015330, 9788500015335 440 páginas
“Tew bring up a child in the wa he should go—travel that wa yourself.”
Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings, Chapter 78: "Domestik Receipts in Full" http://books.google.com/books?id=gNw-AQAAMAAJ&q=%22Tew+bring+up+a+child+in+the%22+%22he+should+go+travel+that+wa+yourself%22&pg=PA217#v=onepage (1865)
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
“Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.”
Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)
“Prejudice iz a hous plant which iz very apt tew wither if yu take it out doors amungst pholks.”
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
“Their is one advantage in a plurality of wifes; tha fite each other, insted ov their husbands.”
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
Affurisms: Jews Harps http://books.google.com/books?id=pkM1AAAAMAAJ&q=%22It+iz+comparitively+eazy+tew+repent+ov+the+sins+that+we+hav+committed+but+tew+repent+ov+thoze+which+we+intend+to+commit+is+asking+tew+mutch+ov+enny+man+now+days%22&pg=PA164#v=onepage, Josh Billings' Wit and Humor (1874)
“The man who kan ware a paper collar a hole week and keap, it klean, aint fit for enny thing else.”
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
“I don't rekoleckt now ov ever hearing ov two dogs fiteing unless thare waz a man or two around.”
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
Affurisms: Slips of the Pen http://books.google.com/books?id=Wpk_AAAAYAAJ&q="The+lion+and+the+lamb+may+possibly+sumtime+lay+down+in+this+world+together+for+a+fu+minnits+but+when+the+lion+kums+tew+git+up+the+lamb+will+be+missing"&pg=PA227#v=onepage The Complete Works of Josh Billings (1876)
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
Josh Billings on Ice, and Other Things https://archive.org/details/joshbillingsoni00billgoog (1868), Chapter XXIV: "Perkussion Caps", p. 89; republished in The Complete Works of Josh Billings http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36556 (1876), Chapter 141: "Ods and Ens", p. 248. Often paraphrased as "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
“7 per cent haz no rest, nor no religion, it works nights, and Sundays, and even wet days.”
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
“I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.”
Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)
“Misanthropy don't pay--thare aint no man living whoze hate the world cares one cuss for.”
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
“When a doktor looks me square in the face and kant see no money in me, then i am happy.”
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
“Them folks who are sudden, aint apt tew be solid; lively streams are alwus shallow.”
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)