Quote by Josh Billings
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the g

There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards? – Josh Billings

Other quotes by Josh Billings

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. – Josh Billings

Category:
Pride
Read Quote

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. – Josh Billings

Category:
best
Read Quote

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear. – Josh Billings

Category:
Fear
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Caution
category

If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it. – Proverb

Category:
Caution

Whenever our neighbors house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Caution

They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Caution

The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon ones self to destiny. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Category:
Caution

Random Quotes

Step by step one goes very far. – Proverb

Category:
Fate & Destiny

You dont know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you dont have a child, you dont know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever. – Regina King

Category:
Experience

In man thought and will prevail, and a desire for liberty and honor. He must act and work, toil and labor, and can preserve his dignity and standing in the world only by acting from principles and clear comprehensions. – Frederick A. Rauch, “Of Man,” Psychology; or, A View of the Human Soul: Includin

Category:
Men

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. – Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country, 1950

Category:
Broken Hearts