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
men fit virtue
It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.
opinion should changed
Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.
noblemen wealth pedigree
Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
jealousy parasites
Jealousy is one of love's parasites.
contentment useless show-me
Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
flower kissing fragrance
You cannot analyze a kiss any more than you can dissect the fragrance of flowers.
cabbage doe genius
Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.
pity unfortunate
The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.
doors house prejudice
Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.
world quacks humbug
Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.
witty porcupines quills
A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.
religion morality trade
Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.
mother children infidelity
There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.
life rich poor
The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.