BILLINGS, JOSH

pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw, 1818–85, American humorist and lecturer, b. Lanesboro, Mass. After a roving life as farmer, explorer, and coal miner, he settled in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., as an auctioneer and real estate dealer. In 1860 he began to write humorous sketches and homespun philosophies in rural dialect and soon became a popular lecturer. His first collection was Josh Billings: His Sayings (1869), but his best humor was published in his annual Farmer's Allminax (1869–80).

See study by D. B. Kesterson (1974).

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Hardtack and Coffee, Or, the Unwritten Story of Army Life
Book by John D. Billings, Charles W. Reed, William L. Shea; University of Nebraska Press, 1993
Subjects: Billings, John Davis--B. 1842, United States--Army--History--Civil War, 1861-1865, United States--Army--Military Life--History--19th Century, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal Narratives
...river, DUMPED INTO THE POTOMAC. when the cook lost all confidence in mules as beasts of burden, and abandoned him. Josh Billings says somewhere that if he had a mule who would neither kick nor bite he would watch him dreadful "cluss" till he...
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Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life
Book by John D. Billings, Richard Harwell; R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1960
Subjects: United States--Army--Military Life, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal Narratives
...W., 438 Big Shanty, Georgia, 454 Billings, Adeline Adelia, xxii Billings, Mrs. Dorcas Clark , xxii Billings, John Cotton, xxiii Billings, John...John Davis, Jr., xxiii Billings, Josh pseudonym , 315 , 320 Billings, Mrs...
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Uncertain Glory: Folklore and the American Revolution
Book by Tristram Potter Coffin; Folklore Associates, 1971
Subjects: Folklore--United States, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
...am: 136 Bernal, Heraclio: 153, 211 1 Bickerton, Richard: See 81 1 Billings, Elizabeth Clark: 135 Billings, Josh (Henry W. Shaw): 243-5,251 1 Billings, Lucy Swan: 136 Billings, William, Sr.: 135-6 Billings, William...
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Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Book by Andrew Carnegie; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920
Subjects: Carnegie, Andrew--1835-1919
...300 ; on Shakespeare, 302 ; and Josh Billings, 303 - 05 ; in Chicago, 305 , 306...steel manufacture, 184 , 185 , 229 . Billings, Dr. J. S., of the New York...Carnegie Institution, 260 . Billings, Josh, 295 ; and Matthew Arnold, 303...
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The Reader's Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia of World Literature and the Arts
Book by William Rose Benét; Thomas Y. Crowell, 1948
Subjects: Art--Dictionaries, Literature--Dictionaries, Music--Dictionaries
...goods if the money is not returned on a stated day. Billings, Josh. The literary name of Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885...humorist. For many years he published an annual known as Josh Billings Farmers Allminax . Billingsgate. The site of an old...
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journal articles on: Billings Josh  - 32 results

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Using the Immigrant's Voice: Humor and Pathos in Nineteenth Century "Dutch" Dialect Texts
Journal article by Holger Kersten; MELUS, Vol. 21, 1996
Subjects: American literature--19th century, Dialect literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Ethnic wit and humor--Criticism, interpretation, etc., German Americans--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Immigrants--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Wit and humor in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...dialect voice. Artemus Ward, Josh Billings, Petroleum V. Nasby and other...known humorists, such as Josh Billings and Max Adeler, the emphasis on...shares certain features with Josh Billings. Yawcob Strauss, however, actually...
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Frank Knight's Skeptical View of Economic Education
Journal article by William S. Kern; Journal of Economic Education, Vol. 21, 1990
Subjects: Economics--Study And Teaching--United States
...involves "unteaching." He frequently cited his favorite principle of education, which he got from the humorist Josh Billings: "It isnt ignorance that does the most damage, but knowing so darned much that aint so" ( Knight 1956 , 256...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar's Performances and the Epistolary Dialect Poem
Journal article by Nadia Nurhussein; African American Review, Vol. 41, 2007
Subjects: African American authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American authors--Speeches, lectures and essays, African American authors--Works, African American writers--Criticism and interpretation, African American writers--Speeches, lectures and essays, African American writers--Works, Dunbar, Paul Laurence--Criticism and interpretation, Dunbar, Paul Laurence--Speeches, lectures and essays, Dunbar, Paul Laurence--Works
...overcompensating and getting it wrong (as in "qute" for "cute"). Similarly, writer/performers such as Artemus Ward and Josh Billings became famous through "cacography," a subgenre of dialect writing using spellings that are meant primarily to indicate...
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The Terrorist Is a Star! Regulating Media Coverage of Publicity-Seeking Crimes
Journal article by Michelle Ward Ghetti; Federal Communications Law Journal, Vol. 60, 2008
Subjects: Mass media industry--Laws, regulations and rules, Pretrial publicity--Laws, regulations and rules, Terrorism--Media coverage
...nothing about their own ghettos. See Pohlmann Foley, supra note l, at 34. (65.) Id. (66.) Attributed to Josh Billings, American humorist (1818-1885). (67.) Bassiouni, Perspectives, supra note 41, at 25. (68.) Catton...
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The Economics of the Welfare State
Journal article by Anthony Barnes Atkinson; American Economist, Vol. 40, 1996
Subjects: Welfare economics--Analysis, Welfare state--Economic aspects
...theory, and the determinants of long-run growth, may lead to different views of the impact of the Welfare State. As Josh Billings said, "it aint that people dont know, but they know so much aint so." An important function of economics is to...
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magazine articles on: Billings Josh  - 23 results

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Quotables
Magazine article; Journal of Property Management, Vol. 75, May/Jun 2010
...One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough." -JOSH BILLINGS, AMERICAN HUMORIST "The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is...
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Authors on the Road
Magazine article by Stefan Kanfer; The New Leader (Online), Vol. 91, November 2008
Subjects: Book reviews, Hydrochloric acid, Motion pictures, Novels, Poetry
...other recitalists anx- ious to establish their names and sell their works. These included his fellow humor- ists Josh Billings, Artemus Ward and Bret Harte. Eventually more serious authors joined the circuit, among them editor Horace ("Go...
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Life in a Dot-lib World
Magazine article by Barbara Quint; Information Today, Vol. 26, December 2009
Subjects: Electronic publishing, Libraries, United States
...Times Guide to Essential Knowledge, the supposed Twain quotation came from a Twain contemporary, a humorist named Josh Billings. How did Safire find that out? Well, he called the Library of Congress. If you want to know something for sure...
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The Therapeutic Temptation
Magazine article by Thomas Szasz; Freeman, Vol. 56, October 2006
Subjects: Addictions, Behavior, College students, Drug abuse, Hospitals, Illnesses, Medical treatment, Mental disorders, Mental institutions, Parents & parenting, Prevention programs, Suicides & suicide attempts
...cardinal consequence of the no-fault disease called "bipolar illness," a.k.a. "depression." How right Josh Billings was when he observed, the "trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so...
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Forget the Myth of Overpopulation
Magazine article by Sheldon Richman; Insight on the News, Vol. 9, December 20, 1993
Subjects: Agricultural resources--Management, Natural resources--Management, Population--International aspects, Resource allocation--Management
...Earth." Everyone knows that the world has too many people. But as American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw wrote in Josh Billings Encyclopedia of Wit and Wisdom in 1874, "The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so...
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Kris Clarifies 'Mano Po 6' Billing Issue
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 16, 2009
Subjects: Collection (Accounting)
Kris Clarifies Mano Po 6 Billing Issue. Kris Aquino did a special...Imbes na maliit lang yung billing, better none at all na lang...her. Kaya stop na sana ang billing issue, rdquo; she expressed...hindi ko nasusubaybayan. Si Josh ang daming programs sa school...
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Coventry Grab Top Billing; HOCKEY: Coaching Solutions League Review
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), November 3, 2005
Coventry Grab Top Billing; HOCKEY: Coaching Solutions League Review. COVENTRY North Warwickshire...Nuneaton 5ths 1 (John Raywood), Nuneaton 6ths 3 (Simon Pennington 2, Josh Wagg) Sikh Union 4ths 5 (Kuljit Sembhi 3, Jag Bancal, Sunny Shoker...
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Football: IFA Makes the Muppet Show Look like a Series of Mastermind
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), December 4, 2007
...Series of Mastermind. Byline: DARREN FULLERTON HUMORIST Josh Billings once claimed that "the biggest fool in the world hasnt...of Mastermind. Before you start proving the likes of Josh Billings wrong - and a growing army of frustrated critics right...
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Advice to Be Clean Works for Both Health and Jokes
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 10, 2006
...Stephanie Penick I frequently quote 19th-century wit Josh Billings. "Dont take life too seriously," he said, "youll...visit www.namidupage.org. Finally, I have this Billings quote posted on my computer next to one by Mark Twain...
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Hospice Can Be a Gift for Your Sick Loved One
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 15, 2008
...I consider the words of 19th century American wit Josh Billings: "Dont take life too seriously; youll never get out...nature, reminding me to smile through the tough times. Billings words are right up there with a quote credited to Greek...
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encyclopedia articles on: Billings Josh  - 3 results

 
 
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Billings, Josh
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BILLINGS, JOSH pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw, 1818 85, American humorist and lecturer...dialect and soon became a popular lecturer. His first collection was Josh Billings: His Sayings (1869), but his best humor was published in his annual...
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Shaw, Henry Wheeler
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SHAW, HENRY WHEELER see Billings, Josh . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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American Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...James Russell Lowell), Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne), Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby (David Ross Locke), Josh Billings (Henry Walker Shaw), and Sut Lovingood (G. W. Harris). Far removed from these humorists in spirit and style...


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