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
It isn't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
rich trouble wealth
It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
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.
american-comedian folks ignorance knowing trouble
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
armed fist four gets hath quarrel
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and four times he who gets his fist in fust
opportunity rare-opportunities knows
Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.
funny witty memories
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
fully life prepared twins
There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins
borrow income money within
Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so
good sensation showing spot
Laffing iz the sensation ov pheeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot
advice despise hate
We hate those who will not take our advice and despise those who do