Josh Billings Quotes


It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.


Citations

Shaw, Henry Wheeler. The Complete Works of Josh Billings. G. W. Dillingham, 1888.

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Although there are rich people who are fools, having inherited their wealth or were lucky, but rarely does anyone refer to a rich person in those kinds of derogatory terms. They may be called unprincipled, nasty, greedy, but generally not stupid.


Josh Billings
Josh Billings
  • Born: April 21, 1818
  • Died: October 14, 1885
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

Josh Billings was the pen name of 19th-century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw . He was a famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States during the latter half of the 19th century. He is often compared to Mark Twain.