Top 26 Quotes by P. T. Barnum

About P. T. Barnum

These are some quotes by American author P. T. Barnum Entertainer, who lived between July 5, 1810 and April 7, 1891.

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

P. T. Barnum

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

P. T. Barnum

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

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

P. T. Barnum

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

P. T. Barnum

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

P. T. Barnum

Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.

P. T. Barnum

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

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

P. T. Barnum

As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.

As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.

P. T. Barnum

In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.

In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.

P. T. Barnum

True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.

P. T. Barnum

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