Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclina >>

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the >>

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hop >>

Quotations about Advertising

We read advertisements to discover and enlarge our desires. We are alw >>

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. >>

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. >>

The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.

Johnson, Samuel