P. T. Barnum quotes and sayings
Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
P. T. Barnum quotes
- He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
- Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
- There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.
- In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.
- Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.
- Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
- There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.
- A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
- Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.
- Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!