Josh Billings

The reader may recall Josh Billings's remark on the subject.

Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

The reader may recall Josh Billings's remark on the subject.

Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

And Fuller would have Josh Billings at my lecture.

'Who Is Mark Twain?' 2009

He pointed out the strain of authentic social criticism that separated Mark Twain from the “merely facetious,” such as Josh Billings and the late Artemus Ward: “The innumerable characters sketched by Mark Twain are actualities, however caricatured—and, usually, they are not so very much caricatured…there is no drawing from casts.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

He pointed out the strain of authentic social criticism that separated Mark Twain from the “merely facetious,” such as Josh Billings and the late Artemus Ward: “The innumerable characters sketched by Mark Twain are actualities, however caricatured—and, usually, they are not so very much caricatured…there is no drawing from casts.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

An assumed illiteracy belonged with the side of life which he presented; but it is pathetic now to consider some of the really masterly sayings of Josh Billings presented in that uncouth form which was regarded as a part of humor a generation ago.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

School Street, where there was always congenial fellowship — Nasby, Josh Billings, and the rest of the peripatetic group that about the end of the year collected there.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

A similar thought was expressed by Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw): “Education is a good thing generally, but most folks educate their prejudices.

William James (1842-1910) 1989

Josh Billings called his favorite cat William, because he considered no shorter name fitted to the dignity of his character.

Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow

"My idea of first-rate poetry," said Josh Billings, "is the kind of poetry that I would have writ."

Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various