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
ignorance damage doe
It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.
letting-go want tails
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
men talking sublime
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
experience increase folly
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
two buzzards stores
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
fool belief incredulity
Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
remember forget prophecy
Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
wise men solitude
A wise man never enjoys himself so much, nor a fool so little, as when alone.
blow firsts hornets
A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.
two people quality
There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.
men world laziness
Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is
happiness want humans
Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.
hypocrite thinking heaven
If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?
men
Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.