About Josh Billings:
Josh Billings was the pen name of 19th-century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw (April 21, 1818 – October 14, 1885). Although his reputation has not endured so well with later generations, in the latter half of the 19th century he was a famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States, perhaps second only to Mark Twain.
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
Josh BillingsThe trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
Josh BillingsCommon sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Josh BillingsWhen a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
Josh Billings