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
happiness want humans
Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
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Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.
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The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.
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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
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Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
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When a man loses his health, then he first begins to take good care of it
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I've never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed
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Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
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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
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Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
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Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.