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
life men years
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
cost pity
Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
made bigots bigotry
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has....
silence world golden
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
entrepreneur looks carriages
I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.
reading knows suspects
The less we know the more we suspect
ignorance reflection arrogance
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.
brother men vices
Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.
men common-sense genius
Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one has, not by how much educated or knowledgeable he is.
love workout sweetheart
Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
funny humor fools-day
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
wise learning experience
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
tea maids scandal
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
wisdom poverty half
Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.