Josh Billings
Josh Billings was an American writer and humorist, born on April 21, 1818, in Lanesborough.
Billings attended Hamilton College and went on to work as a writer throughout the nineteenth century. His practice drew on both the craft of the writer and the sensibility of the humorist, and he worked in the English language across the span of his career. Those two occupations — writer and humorist — remained the twin poles of his professional identity.
He died on October 14, 1885, in Monterey. The comic register, sustained across his working life, is the characteristic that the record of his career consistently returns to, marking him as a figure in whom the American humorous tradition and the writer's vocation were held together without separation.
Quotes by Josh Billings
Josh Billings's insights on:
Love is said to be blind, but I know lots of fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I can.
There is a great multitude of individuals who are like blind mules, anxious enough to kick, but can't tell where.
Ambition is like a treadmill...you no sooner get to the end of it then you begin again.
