Josh Billings
Josh Billings
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, perhaps second only to Mark Twain, during the latter half of the 19th century...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 April 1818
CityLanesborough, MA
CountryUnited States of America
fear ice anxiety
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
pay ruins comedy
The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.
time age aging
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
life faith safety
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
humor rich hard
It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.
addiction skins trying
It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.
character cat men
I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.
men dollars red
The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
differences suffering misery
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
school men fool
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
running debt ifs
Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
succeed obstacles knows
It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.
men weak-man enemy
Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
sarcastic hair league
Doesn't know much, but leads the league in nostril hair.