Josh Billings

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.