Josh Billings Quotes
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
Billings, Josh. The Complete Works of Josh Billings. G. W. Carleton & Co., 1876.
The president was himself an evangelical Christian and he had gone out of his way to issue executive orders authorizing payments to be made for church operated social service activities where proselytizing was permitted. Many Americans thought bush had jumped over the wall separating church and state and yet some of the evangelical Christians kept insisting on more and more money.
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Ironically, Boesky was convicted the following year of insider dealing on the New York Stock Exchange and sentenced to three years in prison.
Josh Billings was the pen name of 19th-century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw . He was a famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States during the latter half of the 19th century. He is often compared to Mark Twain.
