WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:07:55 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg antisocial – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Billings, Josh -- On Ice: and Other Things, 60 (1868) https://wist.info/billings-josh/24460/ https://wist.info/billings-josh/24460/#respond Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:59:20 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=24460 Those who retire from the world on akount ov its sin and peskyness must not forgit that they hav got tew keep kompany with a person who wants just as much watching as ennyboddy else.

[Those who retire from the world on account of its sin and peskiness must not forget that they have got to keep company with a person who wants just as much watching as anybody else.]


Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
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