What did Josh Billings mean by: Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way. - Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. Explain Feraz Zeid, August 9, 2023January 13, 2024, Josh Billings, Funny, Humorous, Witty, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ It’s not only the most difficult thing to know one’s self, but the most inconvenient. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Acceptance, Discovery, Funny, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Comedy, Pay, Ruins, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Wisdom that don’t make us happier ain’t worth plowing for. Feraz Zeid, June 5, 2023December 12, 2023, Josh Billings, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Good nonsense is good sense in disguise. Feraz Zeid, September 20, 2023December 26, 2023, Josh Billings, Disguise, Good Sense, Nonsense, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool. Feraz Zeid, August 13, 2023December 12, 2023, Josh Billings, Belief, Fool, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Poor, Rich, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don’t understand. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Metaphysics, Prove, 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
