Henry Wheeler Shaw Quotes

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  Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

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• There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

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• There’s a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.

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• As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

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• Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain’t got.

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• There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.

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• It is the little things that fret and worry us; you can dodge an elephant, but not a fly.

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• About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

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• It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

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• It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

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• It’s not only the most difficult thing to know one’s self, but the most inconvenient.

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• Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

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• Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

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• One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

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• Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

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• Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

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• Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

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• Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.

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• Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain’t so wicked as their neighbors.

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• No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

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Henry Wheeler Shaw (95)

Birth:	21st April, 1818
Death:	14th October, 1885
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Humorist, Writer

About

Josh Billings was the pen name of 19th-century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw. He was born in Lanesborough, Massachusetts, USA. He was a famous humor writer in the United States, perhaps second only to Mark Twain, during the latter half of the 19th century. He wrote several books include: Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings, Josh Billings on Ice, and Other Things, The Complete Works Of Josh Billings, Farmers' Allminax, and Old Probability.

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