What did Josh Billings mean by: Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don’t attempt to live in them. Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ Fortune is like a coquette; if you don’t run after her, she will run after you. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Chance, Opportunity, Persistence, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Don’t put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today. Author, October 23, 2023January 2, 2025, Josh Billings, Enjoyment, Present, Procrastination, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Wisdom that don’t make us happier ain’t worth plowing for. Author, June 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Josh Billings, Happiness, Value, Wisdom, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ People travel to learn; most of them before they start should learn to travel. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Education, Exploration, Preparation, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Pity costs nothing, and it ain’t worth nothing. Author, October 21, 2023January 2, 2025, Josh Billings, Compassion, Cost, Value, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Comparison, Information, Necessity, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts. Author, June 2, 2023January 2, 2025, Josh Billings, Peace, Shadow, Virtue, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Aging, Sociability, Youth, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it. Read explanation Jean Fautrier Painter · France
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Jean Rousset
