"Never attempt to catch a whale with a…" — P T Barnum
"Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow."
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67 Quotes by P T Barnum
P T Barnum has 67 quotes on this site.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of…
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove…
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of…
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As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people…
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Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours,…
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We cannot all see alike, but we can all do good.
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Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.
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Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of…
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A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result…
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How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?
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More Attempt Quotes
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young,…
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
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The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat.…
— Max Baucus
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get…
— Kate Beckinsale
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
— Alfred Adler
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
— Theodor Adorno
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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been…
— Michael Bloomberg
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