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 venting – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Billings, Josh -- Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1870-06 (1870 ed.) https://wist.info/billings-josh/76552/ https://wist.info/billings-josh/76552/#respond Thu, 08 May 2025 20:29:30 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=76552 Old dorgs nuss their grudges, but yung purps fite, and then frolick.

[Old dogs nurse their grudges, but young pups fight and then frolic.]


Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1870-06 (1870 ed.)
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This aphorism shows up again in Everybody's Friend, Or; Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 "Affurisms: Embers on the Harth" (1874), with slight spelling changes:

Old dorgs nuss their grudges, but yung pupps fight and then frolik.
 
 ]]> https://wist.info/billings-josh/76552/feed/ 0 76552 Lehane, Dennis -- Since We Fell (2017) https://wist.info/lehane-dennis/67045/ https://wist.info/lehane-dennis/67045/#respond Thu, 08 Feb 2024 19:28:36 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=67045 A complaint that’s not looking for a solution is a disease not looking for a cure.


Dennis Lehane (b. 1965) American novelist, screenwriter
Since We Fell (2017)
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A frequent saying of the character Brian Delacroix. ]]> https://wist.info/lehane-dennis/67045/feed/ 0 67045