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Humor Quotes - Page 113

There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

Jerry Della Femina (2010). “From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harb: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

"Of Books". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

"President Garfield and Education: Hiram College Memorial". Book by Burke Aaron Hinsdale, 1882.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.103, Cambridge University Press

You have the Midas touch. Everything you touch turns to a muffler.

Henny Youngman (1994). “Henny Youngman's Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks”, Outlet

The foods that are recommended today are as palatable as a steady diet of wet blotters.

Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.33, Da Capo Press