Funny business Quote by Josh Billings Download Open image “I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.” — Josh Billings ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funny business Inspirational Known Love Lying
Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be making a lot of… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
My theory with the auctions has been to try to make them like a party, like a social event. If people are having a… — Paul Brown Copy Share Image
My mother is an absolute stickler for honesty. If you found money in the street you handed it in to a shop or found… — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
It isn't the initial cost of a lie, it is the upkeep which counts so terribly. — Emilie Loring Copy Share Image
Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often; it is because there is so much fun n the making up. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Its harly my dog A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born;… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats... — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something that they thought irretrievably lost. — Helen Exley Copy Share Image
We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it,… — Joseph L. Mankiewicz Copy Share
