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

Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Advertising may be described as 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.

If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.