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)
Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
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
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles — safe on her own nose all the time.
—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
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
Topics: Dogs, Animals
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