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
wise made
Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.
wise men solitude
A wise man never enjoys himself so much, nor a fool so little, as when alone.
wise men profit
It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.
wise men want
It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
wise men thinking
What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.
wise aging folks
Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
wise wisdom men
A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.
wise confidence men
Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.
wise learning experience
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
inspirational wise silly
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
wise men doe
Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
wise stupidity-and-ignorance folks
Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
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