What did Josh Billings mean by: When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road. Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ Man isn’t a fool for his ignorance, but rather for believing things that are wrong. Read explanation Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Belief, Foolishness, Ignorance, 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
+ 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
+ Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Brotherhood, Vice, Virtue, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can’t bear to have anyone else one. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Foolishness, Hypocrisy, Judgment, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Caution, Change, Opinion, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. Read explanation Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Imagination, Memory, Perception, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ It ain’t what a man don’t know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain’t so. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Foolishness, Ignorance, Knowledge, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. Read explanation Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. Jean Cocteau Artist · France