Zitat des Tages von P. T. Barnum:
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.
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!
Every crowd has a silver lining.
Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
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.
Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
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.