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
rich trouble wealth
It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
rich trouble
It isn't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.
people trouble
The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so
learning science trouble
It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.
hypocrisy trouble bother
I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.
shoes forget-you trouble
There's one good thing about tight shoes; they make you forget your other troubles.
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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
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
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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.
breed mistake pleasures
Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.