The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Small does of advertising result in nothing, obviously. It's like giving a sick person half the medicine he needs. It just causes… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
