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
horse virtue discourse
...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.
peace shadow virtue
Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.
pay virtue easier
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
passion doe virtue
Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
dying shame virtue
Shame is the dying embers of virtue.
virtue masters should
We should make virtue our master, not our servant.
men fit virtue
It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.
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.