Advertising – A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it
When actors begin to think it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
The Lord said ‘let there be wheat’ and Saskatchewan was born.
In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages … so we just go right ahead and use English for literature Scotch for sermons and American for conversation.
I’m a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.
I’m a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
I’m a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
I’m a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
I’m a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
I’m a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
I’m a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
I’m a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
I’m a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
I never realized that there was history close at hand beside my very own home. I did not realize that the old grave that stood among the brambles at the foot of our farm was history.
The best definition of humour I know is: humour may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life and the artistic expression thereof. I think this is the best I know because I wrote it myself.
You encourage a comic man too much and he gets silly.
Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.
Life we learn too late is in the living in the tissue of every day and hour.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Life we learn too late is in the living in the tissue of every day and hour.
Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
A half truth like half a brick is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
A sportsman is a man who every now and then simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he’s cruel. He wouldn’t hurt a fly. It’s not big enough.
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself- it is the occurring which is difficult.
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
It is to be observed that ‘angling’ is the name given to fishing by people who can’t fish.
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 economy.