Henry Wheeler Shaw Quotes

• Life is short, but it’s long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• 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.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• It ain’t often that a man’s reputation outlasts his money.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• I haven’t got as much money as some folks, but I’ve got as much impudence as any of them, and that’s the next thing to money.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• Every man has his follies – and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• Don’t ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

  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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