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
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To bring up a child in the way he should go - travel that way yourself.
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Never teach your child to be cunning for you may be certain that you will be one of the first victims of his shrewdness
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Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.
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There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.
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Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
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It isn't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
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We hate those who will not take our advice and despise those who do
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Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves.
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It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
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Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so
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To be a good critic demands more brains and judgment than most men possess
knowledge
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
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The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.