Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is better
- Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is better
Tenacity and quietness of manner are preferable to ostentation. Cf. 1580 A. MUNDAY Zelauto 146 Brag is a good Dogge, whyle he will holde out: but at last he may chaunce to meete with his matche; 1599 SHAKESPEARE Henry V II. iii. 52 And Holdfast is the only dog, my duck.
1709 O. DYKES English Proverbs 123 Brag is a good Dog, but Hold-fast is a Better... Nothing edifies less in an ingenuous Conversation, than Boasting and Rattle.
1752 S. JOHNSON Rambler 4 Feb. VIII. 92 When I envied the finery of any of my neighbours, [my mother] told me, that ‘brag was a good dog, but holdfast was a better’.
1889 Pictorial Proverbs for Little People 11 Brag’s a good dog, but Holdfast is better.
1937 R. W. WINSTON It’s Far Cry xxi. In golf, as in life..the exceptional has no staying qualities. To quote a Southern [US] saying, ‘Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is better’.
1952 J. F. DOBIE Some Part of Myself vii. I remember my mother’s repeating once after he left an old proverb: ‘Brag’s a good dog, but Hold Fast is a better.’
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