“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
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
“Nature never makes blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.”
Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
Josh Billings' Old Farmer's Allminax, "January 1871" http://books.google.com/books?id=sUI1AAAAMAAJ&q=%22Don't+mistake+vivacity+for+wit+thare+iz+about+az+mutch+difference+az+thare+iz+between+lightning+and+a+lightning+bug%22&pg=PT30#v=onepage (1870)
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
“I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain't so.”
" Sollum Thoughts http://books.google.com/books?id=7rA8AAAAYAAJ&q=%22tew+know+nothing%22#v=snippet&q=%22tew%20know%20nothing%22&f=false". in Everybody's Friend: Josh Billing's Encyclopedia & Proverbial Philosophy of Wit & Humor (1874)
Variant:
I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Variante: I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)
“Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust”
Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)
“Mankind loves misterys--a hole in the ground, excites mor wonder than a star in the heavens.”
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
“I hate grate talkers; i had rather hav a swarm of bees lite onto me.”
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
“As a gineral thing, when a woman wares the britches, she has a good rite tew them.”
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
“Familiarity breeds kontempt.”
This only applies tew men, not tew hot bukwheat slapkakes, well buttered and sugared.
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)