What did Josh Billings mean by: Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven’t much left to do business with. - Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Choices, Opportunity, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain’t gout. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Lord, Medicine, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ I don’t care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Care, Silence, 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
+ 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 best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Silly, Wise, 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
+ Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Fashion, Fool, Slave, 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
