A Quote by Josh Billings

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

Josh Billings

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Age Grandson Improve Infringement Often Parent Seldom Too Weak

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Josh Billings
American - Comedian
April 21, 1818 - October 14, 1885

When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net.

Amy Dickinson

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.

Napoleon Hill

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Dale Carnegie

We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

George Carlin

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I was too weak to walk. At least, I thought I was too weak. But in truth, I was too weak to try.

Jay Asher

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

Jean Rhys

Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt; Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.

Samuel Johnson

All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be virtuous, they should at least be nervous.

Joseph Sobran

I tried to be the greatest boxer in the world and a good parent, too. I had instant feedback on my success as a boxer. Often, parents don't really know if what they are doing is right or wrong until their child is grown and it is too late to change any of the decisions. Whatever my failings as a parent, I am very proud of all my children. It wasn't easy for them to make their own way with such a controversial and public father.

Muhammad Ali

Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.

David Boies

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

Samuel Johnson

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

Warren Buffett

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch tv too much. We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.