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
christian society wide-awake
Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.
judging agree good-judges
There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.
society
We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.
sorrow pity cures
I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.
soul disease body
The soul has more diseases than the body.
men ignorant stubborn
If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.
ignorance stupidity unconscious
Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.
art knows superiors
It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it.
tears poor diets
Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet.
writing sentences
We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.
silence noise stills
Silence is a still noise.
men way spells
I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.
substitutes endearment fellows
There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.
men he-man tempted
The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.