I never knu a man to brag ov hiz munny, or hiz pedigree, who had enny thing else worth bragging about.
[I never knew a man to brag of his money, or his pedigree, who had anything else worth bragging about.]
Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1877-10 (1877 ed.)
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The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry, is somewhat like a potatoe, the only good thing is under ground.
Thomas Overbury (1581–1613) English poet
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Referenced in John Ireland, Letters and Poems by the Late Mr. John Henderson (1786).Variant: "The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors, is like a potatoe, the only good belonging to him is under ground." -- The Lady's Monthly Museum (June 1807).
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) American minister, author, abolitionist, soldier
“A Plea for Culture,” Atlantic Essays (1871)
