+ If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Corruption, Deception, Politics, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Too many individuals are like Shakespeare’s definition of “echo,”–babbling gossips of the air. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Communication, Criticism, Gossip, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can’t tell the truth without lying. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Addiction, Exaggeration, Truth, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Don’t mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs. Read explanation Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Comparison, Happiness, Pleasure, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Connection, Escape, Society, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ The best creed we can have is charity toward the creeds of others. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Respect, Tolerance, Understanding, 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. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Growth, Prejudice, Social, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain’t got. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Desire, Gender, Loss, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. Read explanation Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture. Jean Cocteau Artist · France