Traveling Carnivals are a microcosm of society, and we’ve found many carnival-related quotes that can apply to life in general. Enjoy!
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| Traveling fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, 2002. |
“No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story."
— P.T. Barnum, 1880
“Organized confusion.”
— Averill Wanous, when asked to describe her traveling show for a newspaper in 1974.
“You've got to keep the people happy. In my games I always give a little kid a prize. Win, lose or draw it doesn't matter to me, I'm happy to see the kid smile and walk away because I know sooner or later they're going to come back and have another go. And that's the way you've got to run your business, you've got to work to the public, and that's how it goes.”
— Richard Miller, fourth-generation Australian showman, 2020.
“There is no such thing in the world as luck.”
— P.T. Barnum, 1880
"It’s real Americana. It’s part of our tradition and pretty soon it won’t be around no more. The carny is like a little city, you know. The rides are like the skyscrapers, and there are all those little stores on the midway. It has its Forty-second Street and its big, expensive rides and things for the little kids and things for the big kids and it moves. It’s sparkling and glittering. Lights fly through the skies and people are laughing and all of a sudden — whoosh! — it’s gone."
— Robbie Robertson, 1980
“We were a closed society, it was us against the world. That’s not the case today and hasn’t been for a very long time."
— Frank Zaitshik, 2023
"Poor fool! Not to know that the most difficult thing in life is to make money dishonestly!"
— P.T. Barnum, 1880
"I think life is beautiful and I enjoy living it."
— Frank Lentini, known as “The Three Legged Man”, 1940
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