P. T. Barnum Quotes

“A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.”

“Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land – it largely increases the product.”

“Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.”

“However mysterious is nature, however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science, the patronage and the success of quacks and quackeries are infinitely more wonderful than those of honest and laborious men of science and their careful experiments.”

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

“Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.”

“More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.”

“Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.”

“The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it.”

“The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.”