Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Quote by Stephen Leacock

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The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile...

The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile...

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or...

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or...

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is...

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is...

It may be those who do most, dream most.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but...

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but...

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be...

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be...

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or...

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or...

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are...

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are...

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are...

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are...

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the...

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the...

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than...

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than...

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it...

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it...

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and...

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and...

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The...

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The...

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery...

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery...