What did Josh Billings mean by: Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves. - Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Josh Billings, Return, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Too many individuals are like Shakespeare’s definition of “echo,”–babbling gossips of the air. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Josh Billings, Air, Echoes, 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. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Brother, Vices, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Dog, Funny, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Dew, Morning, Paper, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Desire, Praise, 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
+ Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool. Feraz Zeid, August 13, 2023December 12, 2023, Josh Billings, Belief, Fool, 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
The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
