Quote

Vanity is a strange passion rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

Josh Billings

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
Writer
Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Jobs
Brag
Vanity
Vices
Strange
Passion
Rather

More quotes by Josh Billings

Image
If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.
Josh Billings
Image
Shame is the dying embers of virtue.
Josh Billings
Image
Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.
Josh Billings
Image
Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.
Josh Billings
Image
When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.
Josh Billings
Image
I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.
Josh Billings
Image
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
Josh Billings
Image
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
Josh Billings
Image
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
Josh Billings
Image
The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.
Josh Billings
Image
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings
Image
If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.
Josh Billings
Image
Experience is a grindstone and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.
Josh Billings
Image
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Josh Billings
Image
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Josh Billings
Image
We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.
Josh Billings
Image
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
Image
True valor is like honesty it enters into all that a man sees and does.
Josh Billings
Image
There is a significant Latin proverb to wit: Who will guard the guards?
Josh Billings
Image
The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.
Josh Billings