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
good poor solitude stay
Solitude: A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay
anybody man notice poor purpose true wants wealth
It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there isn't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
men enemy poor
The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.
tears poor diets
Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet.
life rich poor
The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
poor good-place
A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.
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.
breed mistake pleasures
Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.
both credit stand suspicion temptation
Credit is like chastity, they can both stand temptation better than suspicion