I Agree

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness

Cullen Hightower

Your very silence shows you agree

Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Maximes (1678)

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong

Mo Udall

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

Giving and Getting Advice

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation, 1974

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Gore Vidal (1925 - )

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), What The Dead Men Say, 1964

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

Sidney J. Harris

In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.

Solon (638 BC - 559 BC)

This is the time of the year we feel the full onslaught of the season's advertising.

Here are some quotations which might help us understand what it is all about.

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Bill Cosby (1937 - )

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticult Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)

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

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 - 1962), "Discovery", 1964

Conversation topics

The bore exists to abuse peoples' natural politeness and curiosity and will bend the ear of any unfortunate passing in a 20-foot radius of themselves with a never-ending dribble of ill-formed and incomprehensible opinion. Make no mistake about it: regardless of how `bohemian' the bore appears, he is deeply conservative and will hold many insane and mostly mutually-inconsistent views on unmarried mothers, foreign emigrants, the power of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, and the price of the pint.

Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914),

The Devil's Dictionary A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922)

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. Frank Moore Colby

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. George Saunders, last words

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. Henry Kissinger (1923 - )

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)

Every hero becomes a bore at last. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)