Henry Wheeler Shaw Quotes

• The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• The trouble with people is not that they don’t know but that they know so much that ain’t so.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• There are two kinds of fools: those who can’t change their opinions and those who won’t.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can’t suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• Woman’s influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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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