Henry Wheeler Shaw Quotes

• Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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  Tags in Common, Seeing

• Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

• A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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

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• Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

  Topics in Wisdom

• Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

  Topics in Wisdom

• There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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• Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

  Topics in Love, Wedding

  Tags in Marrying, Risky, Help, Honest, Marriage

• Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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  Tags in More, Sense

• Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Good, Holding, Playing, Hope

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

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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  Tags in Hard, Learn

• 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.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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  Tags in World, People

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

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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  Tags in Woman

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

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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  Tags in Worry

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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