Josh Billings Quotes

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

Josh Billings

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• Some of the craziest people I know, some of the coolest guys I know who party and go crazy and play rock shows and have tons of tattoos, they will still go to church on Sunday and do their best to live that kind of a life.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.

  

  B. B. King
  • You
  • Play
  • Blue

• Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • World
  • Energy
  • Positive

• Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren't before you were injured.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Music
  • Different
  • Important

• Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Mean
  • Language
  • Dreams

• I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?'

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Dogs
  • Clean
  • Feed

• There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Justice
  • Democracy
  • Economy

• All the sounds of the earth are like music.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Like

• The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • High
  • Age
  • New

• I have this L'Oral Superstar mascara, it's two sizes: One side is to make it thicker, and then you put the black layer on, and it gives a beautiful look.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Beautiful
  • Black
  • Look

• The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Party

• The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Alive
  • Journalist

• When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Years

• When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Eggs

• When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are accepting an institutional role that requires you to make hard decisions and hard choices, and as a consequence you have to take your moral sense and not put it aside.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • American
  • Decision

• In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

  

  Sophocles
  • Weak
  • Cause
  • Beat

• My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Father

• Comedy, such a lovely lady, she'll pick you up, you your feeling blue.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Up
  • She
  • Feeling

• Oh, I have walked in Kansas Through many a harvest field, And piled the sheaves of glory there And down the wild rows reeled: Each sheaf a little yellow sun, A heap of hot-rayed gold; Each binder like Creation's hand To mold suns, as of old.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • Hand
  • Sun
  • Gold

• The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not of a great, but of a decaying society. Historians know that both phenomena were especially marked in the declining eras of the Roman Empire in the West and of its successor state, the Eastern or Byzantine Empire.

  

  William Henry Chamberlin
  • Taxes
  • Productive
  • Empires

• One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

  

  Josh Billings
  • Beat
  • Victories
  • Politeness