What did Josh Billings mean by: Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for. - Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Dollars, Saving, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Music wasn’t made to make us wise, but better natured. Feraz Zeid, November 1, 2023December 26, 2023, Josh Billings, Wise, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Man isn’t a fool for his ignorance, but rather for believing things that are wrong. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Believe, Ignorance, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Art, Hunting, Ideas, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Dog, Lying, 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
+ A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Fool, Remembered, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so. Feraz Zeid, June 17, 2023December 12, 2023, Josh Billings, Attitude, Believe, Ignorance, 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
