Josh Billings (1818–85) 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.
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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully
the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you
will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles
– on her own nose all the time.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
Money will buy you a pretty good dog,
but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
Topics: Adversity, Blessings, Silver Linings
It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can’t dodge a fly.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
Topics: Worry
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