Henry Wheeler Shaw Quotes

• Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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• Mi advise to them who are about tu begin, in arnest, the jurney ov life, is tu take their harte in one hand and a club in the other.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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• It ain’t often that a man’s reputashun outlasts his munny.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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• Man was kreated a little lower than the angells and has bin gittin a little lower ever since.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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• In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy…to wit–the wag of a dog’s tail.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

  Topics in History

  Tags in World, Happiness

• If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles – on her own nose all the time.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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• A learned fool is one who has read everything, and simply remembered it.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

  Topics in Knowledge

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

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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  Tags in Thing, Get, Like

• A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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  Tags in Dog

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

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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

  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

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

  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

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

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

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• Ethere are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

  Topics in Memory, Mistake

  Tags in People, Imagination

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

  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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