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
inspirational wisdom ignorance
The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
wise wisdom men
A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.
wisdom poverty half
Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.
wisdom sleep learning
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
wisdom truth honesty
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
fools-and-foolishness mostly
Everyone has his foolishness and mostly those are the most interesting things a person has.
best convince fool fools-and-foolishness wrong
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way
certain child cunning teach victims
Never teach your child to be cunning for you may be certain that you will be one of the first victims of his shrewdness
begins care good loses man
When a man loses his health, then he first begins to take good care of it
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
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