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
enjoy health lots people spend time watching
There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy it.
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The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
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The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so
loss talking people
People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.
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.
god people wicked
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
travel people should
People travel to learn; most of them before they start should learn to travel.
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There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it.
people looks return
When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.
selfish heart people
Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.
worry people sorrow
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
lying exaggeration-is people
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
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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