Josh Billings
Humorist, Author
1818 – 1885
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Who was Josh Billings?
Josh Billings was the pen name of 19th-century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw. Although his reputation has not endured so well with later generations, in the latter half of the 19th century he was a famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States, perhaps second only to Mark Twain.
Famous Quotes:
- The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
- I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
- The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
- Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
- As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
- The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.
- Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
- Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
- Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
- The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so.
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- Born
- Apr 21, 1818
Lanesborough - Also known as
- Henry Wheeler Shaw
- Parents
- Spouses
- Zipha E. Shaw
(1845 - 1885/10/14)
- Zipha E. Shaw
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Hamilton College
- Died
- Oct 14, 1885
Monterey
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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