Josh Billings Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• ...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.

  Josh Billings

  Horse, Virtue, Discourse

• Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.

  Josh Billings

  Brother, Men, Vices

• We should make virtue our master, not our servant.

  Josh Billings

  Virtue, Should, Masters

  Josh Billings (1870). “Josh Billings on Ice, and Other Things”, p.144

• Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.

  Josh Billings

  Peace, Shadow, Virtue

• Shame is the dying embers of virtue.

  Josh Billings

  Dying, Shame, Virtue

• 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

  Men, Ignorant, Stubborn

• It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Fit, Virtue

• It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.

  Josh Billings

  Pay, Virtue, Easier

• Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

  Josh Billings

  Passion, Doe, Virtue

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