Quote #70
Prejudice iz a hous plant which iz very apt tew wither if yu take it out doors amungst pholks.
More from Josh Billings
- I hate grate talkers; i had rather hav a swarm of bees lite onto me.
- I never hav seen a bigot yet but what had a small and apparently braneless hed--bit i hain't seen all the bigots, yu know.
- Rather than not hav faith in enny thing, i am willing tew be beat 9 times out ov 10.
- Thare iz this mutch kan be sed in favour ov good-breeding, it iz the only thing that kan make a phool endurable.
- I dont never hav enny trouble in regulating mi own kondukt, but tew keep other pholks straight iz what bothers me.
- Marrying for buty iz a poor spekulashun, for enny man who sees yure wife, has got just about az mutch stock in her as yu have.
- I think that a hen who undertakes tew lay 2 eggs a day must necessarily neglekt sum other branch ov bizzness.
- I had rather be a pot-bellied seed cowcumber, flung carelessly on a wood pile to ripen, than tew be an old bachelor.