It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
The only risk of failure is promotion.
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.
One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.
