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
selfishness world would-be
Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.
men world laziness
Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is
missing together world
The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.
thinking vanity world
There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.
want world this-world
Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.
world philosopher mystery
The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.
wicked world fool
The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.
world quacks humbug
Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.
silence world golden
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
dog tails world
In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
men perfection world
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
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