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
+ The great art of writing is knowing when to stop. Feraz Zeid, July 27, 2023December 12, 2023, Josh Billings, Art, Knowing, Writing, 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
+ Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can’t bear to have anyone else one. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Fool, Hypocrisy, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ 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
+ Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Josh Billings, Law, Satire, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Funny, Income, Money, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Brother, Vices, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts. Feraz Zeid, June 2, 2023December 12, 2023, Josh Billings, Peace, Shadow, Virtue, 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
