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
advice despise hate
We hate those who will not take our advice and despise those who do
men giving advice
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
advice may want
What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.
men advice opinion
I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.
advice example prove
Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.
oil advice enough
Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.
hate advice despise
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
people advice opinion
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
begins care good loses man
When a man loses his health, then he first begins to take good care of it
hundred known remarkable
I've never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else
cologne flattery swallowed
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed
follies man
Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
contentment man moral success
Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if thare want ennything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is
ability consider gets postage stick success till
Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.