| R. H. Andrews - 1908 - 426 psl.
...doctor tells just what an insane man is and what an insane man is not. J. Billings' loquitur: "It is better not to know so many things than to know so many that ain't so." Insanity is a large subject and cases are arising every day almost and in almost every... | |
| Caroline Bigelow Le Row - 1888 - 232 psl.
...who said, " It is better / " Transfusion of blood is killing one man to get it into the other." . not to know so many things than to know so \ many things that aint so." J Is it possible to find a greater fallacy in our whole educational scheme than that the lack of time... | |
| John Wesley Edward Bowen - 1896 - 306 psl.
...and such argument it is pertinent to affirm, in the language of Mr. Josh Billings, that it would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so. The trouble with this mode of argument has been that it was characteristic of Mr. Kremlin,... | |
| William Augustus Mowry, Arthur May Mowry - 1896 - 518 psl.
...Accuracy. An American humorist has embodied an important truth in the following statement: " It is better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so." Our histories and biographies have too often been filled with anecdotes and incidents... | |
| John Wesley Edward Bowen - 1896 - 304 psl.
...and such argument it is pertinent to affirm, in the language of Mr. Josh Billings, that it would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so. The trouble with this mode of argument has been that it was characteristic of Mr. Kremlin,... | |
| Howard Payson Arnold - 1899 - 408 psl.
...formula, " What religion may do for a man." There is much truth in the dictum of Josh Billings : " It is better not to know so many things than to know so many things that ain't so." Though the Trinity seems not to have had a father previous to the paternal trouvaille of Mr. Sears,... | |
| 1900 - 1050 psl.
...free trade, found in this message a new and splendid illustration of Mr. Kelly's definition, to wit: " Free trade is the science of assumption;" while the...applied the definition of Mr. Kelly and the remark of Josh Billings to Mr. Cleveland and his famous free trade message, and that they preferred a Congress... | |
| Edward Nelson Dingley - 1902 - 640 psl.
...remark that as he listened to Dockery he was reminded of the quaint saying of Josh Billings that 'It is better not to know so many things, than to know so many th1ngs that ain't Bo.' That criticism of the speech to the preparation of which the Missourian had... | |
| William Thomas Ellis - 1909 - 328 psl.
...one of them keeps a native mistress." To both my informants I should have liked to remark : " It is better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so." Some charges against missionaries are straight slander, many are clear misapprehensions,... | |
| James Thompson Bixby - 1912 - 264 psl.
...of the particularly irritating nuisances of the time. As a keen humorist of our day has said, "It is better not to know so many things than to know so many things that ain't so." Every reader of the magazines and books that flood the market is aware what a veritably morbid appetite... | |
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