|
Josh Billings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|
||
|
|
||
|
Product Description; Josh Billings is one of the great humorists this country has produced. This book is the delightful, funny stories and sayings of our wisest American Humorist.
|
||
|
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. ... When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man ... Email this page of Josh Billings quotes to a friend.
|
||
|
Josh Billings on Ice, And Other Things (1868); Josh Billings: His Sayings (1869); Josh Billings Farmer's Allminax (1869-80, almanac, annual); Everybody's Friend (1874); Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1876, works);
|
||
|
One of his wise sayings, "To finish is to win" is the motto of the RunAground and one of the reasons the event was named for Josh Billings. The fun-loving, not-too-serious aspect of the race is perhaps why it has become the oldest and largest bike-canoe-run triathlon in the country.
|
||
|
Josh Billings, American Literature, Biographies ... Josh Billings pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw, 1818–85, American humorist and lecturer, b. Lanesboro, Mass. After a roving life as ... His first collection was Josh Billings: His Sayings (1869), but his best humor was published in his annual Farmer's Allminax (1869–80).
|
||
|
Buy Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings in India. Price:Rs.1732 Discount:22%, Free Shipping on Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings. Book Review of Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings by Josh Billings. 0548145997 9780548145999 ... Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings, Josh Billings, 0548145997...
|
Copyright © 2009, Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.