Josh Billings was the pen name of 19th century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw (21 April 1818 – 14 October 1885). He was perhaps the second most famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States in the second half of the 19th century after Mark Twain, although his reputation has not endured so well with later generations.
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“When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalms, 8:2.
‘Man was kreated a little lower than the angells and has bin gittin a little lower ever sinse.’ (Josh Billings, His Sayings, ch. 28, 1865)
“It is a verry delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimashun, and yures too.”
—Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818–1885)
“Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them.”
—Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818–1885)
“Tew bring up a child in the wa he should go—travel that wa yourself.”
—Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818–1885)
“Sekts and creeds ov religion, are like pocket compesses, good enuff tu pinte out the direction, but the nearer the pole yu git the wuss tha wurk.”
—Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818–1885)