What did Josh Billings mean by: Poverty is the step-mother of genius. - Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Josh Billings, Individual, Moral, Neat, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess. Feraz Zeid, September 12, 2023December 26, 2023, Josh Billings, Ethics, Honesty, Wealth, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Bait, Debt, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Aging, Folks, Wise, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry – for the clothes. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Sarcastic, Sorry, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Fool, Wicked, 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
+ Shame is the dying embers of virtue. Feraz Zeid, November 1, 2023December 26, 2023, Josh Billings, Dying, Shame, Virtue, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter. - Francois Delsarte Musician · France
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius. - Washington Allston Painter · USA
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions. - Wassily Kandinsky Painter · Russia
Keep telling yourself and others there are no supermoms, there are only wonderful mothers. - Jean Marzollo