What did Josh Billings mean by: Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves. - Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ 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
+ Remember the poor, it costs nothing. Feraz Zeid, July 10, 2023December 12, 2023, Josh Billings, Cost, Sarcasm, Sarcastic, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Keep a cow, and then the milk won’t have to be watered but once. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Cows, Milk, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Ears, End, Tails, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Josh Billings, Doors, House, Prejudice, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Some folks are wise and some otherwise. Feraz Zeid, October 6, 2023December 26, 2023, Josh Billings, Wisdom, Wise, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Boards, Law, Mother, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ There are very few good judges of humor, and they don’t agree. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Agreement, Judging, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
