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
men silence care
I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
silence kind argument
Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.
silence blunders
Silence never makes any blunders.
silence noise stills
Silence is a still noise.
silence world golden
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
begins care good loses man
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
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
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.