What did Josh Billings mean by: It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better. - Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Emotion, Melancholy, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don’t get rid of them. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Josh Billings, Bees, Fight, Rumor, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Don’t take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Josh Billings, Advice, Letting go, Tails, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Business, Complaining, Grease, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Angel, Sarcasm, Sarcastic, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Brother, Vices, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Life is short, but it’s long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Funny, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice. Feraz Zeid, October 13, 2023December 26, 2023, Josh Billings, Ignorance, Nurse, Prejudice, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize. - Jean Tirole
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
