WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:30:36 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg fire and brimstone – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Billings, Josh -- Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1876-07 (1876 ed.) https://wist.info/billings-josh/84544/ https://wist.info/billings-josh/84544/#respond Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:09:54 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=84544 I am allwuss more than haff afraid ov the man, who kant talk 5 minnitts with me, on enny subjekt, without expressing grate anxiety about my soul.

[I am always more than half afraid of the man who can’t talk five minutes with me, on any subject, without expressing great anxiety about my soul.]


Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1876-07 (1876 ed.)
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