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
widows young stills
Young widows still bide their time.
wise wisdom men
A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.
men use
Men who have much to say use the fewest words.
want world this-world
Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.
world philosopher mystery
The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.
work heart soul
Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.
travel people should
People travel to learn; most of them before they start should learn to travel.
would-be rubbish titles
Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.
lying attention politics
If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.
home rumor vagrants
Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.
fighting rumor bees
Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.
dying shame virtue
Shame is the dying embers of virtue.
silence kind argument
Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.
silence blunders
Silence never makes any blunders.