Willing Quotes by P. T. Barnum

You can fool most of the people most of the time.

— P. T. Barnum

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

— P. T. Barnum

Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.

— P. T. Barnum

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

— P. T. Barnum

Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.

— P. T. Barnum

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

Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

— P. T. Barnum

I never liked to work, I mean manual work.

— P. T. Barnum

Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

— P. T. Barnum

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.

— P. T. Barnum

I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

— P. T. Barnum

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