Quote by Josh Billings
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could ha

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. – Josh Billings

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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. – Josh Billings

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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. – Josh Billings

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. – Ambrose Bierce

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Im trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week. – Erma Bombeck

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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, thats now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by. – Conrad Aiken

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