Josh Billings Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

  Josh Billings

  Common Sense, Genius, Comedy

• Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one has, not by how much educated or knowledgeable he is.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Common Sense, Genius

• Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

  Josh Billings

  Mother, Genius, Poverty

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.236

• Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

  Josh Billings

  Common Sense, Genius, Comedy

  Josh Billings (1953). “Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh”

• Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.

  Josh Billings

  Doe, Genius, Cabbage

• Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Eagles, Crow

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