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
rich trouble
It isn't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
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It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
learning science trouble
It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.
hypocrisy trouble bother
I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.
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There's one good thing about tight shoes; they make you forget your other troubles.
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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.
people trouble
The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so
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We hate those who will not take our advice and despise those who do
american-comedian knowledge
Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves.
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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.
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To bring up a child in the way he should go - travel that way yourself.