Advertising, Sales and Marketing Quotations

Grave of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Sleepy Hollow, Massachusetts, USA. (Louisa M Alcott who wrote Little Women is also buried there.)

Every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Attributed to Emerson. Anonymous.

Eye level is buy level.

The consumer is not a moron. She is your wife.
Ogilvy

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson. Attributed.

Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Proverb

If you've got it, flaunt it.

We're number two; we try harder.
Avis

Every little helps.
Tesco.

You've got to be in it to win it.
National Lottery, England.

BOGOF. Buy one - get one free.

Pile it high and sell it cheap.

Tesco?

Never knowingly undersold.

John Lewis.

No such thing as a free lunch.

Angela Lansbury, BA Hons, author and speaker.
Author of Quick Quotations.

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Quotations during wedding ceremonies, about weddings for speeches at ceremonies and receptions and for Wedding menus and printed material

Love
Dearly beloved brethren, we are gathered here today

Who gives away this woman? (C of E. A Jewish bride is not given away but answers for herself.)

Love at first sight.
Official

Do you take this man / woman
to be your husband/wife
Forsaking all others
To love and support
In sickness and in health
to nurse through sickness back to good health?

In poverty your love shall be your riches
So long as you both shall live?

Bride to be/ Groom

I do.

When you need a hand it shall be mine

Official

I will now marry you, with this ring

I now pronounce you man and wife
You may kiss the bride
(Best man or other helper presents the ring or rings.

Spouse to be places it on the finger of their partner.

The register is signed by both and the two witnesses.

Marriage
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
(Jan Austen, never married!)

Marriage is like a pair of scissors - let no man drive them asunder

Marriage Advice
Never let the sun go down on your anger.
Whenever you're wrong admit it; whenever you're right - shut up!
(Ogden Nash)

Weddings
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.

Second Marriage
Practise makes perfect

Children
May all your troubles be little ones.
The patter of tiny feet.

At your age, if you hear the patter of tiny feet, you came home drunk and this is the wrong house.
Angela Lansbury (I planned to say this in a speech at the wedding of Andrew Whitney and Sharon.)

What made you marry this millionaire?
(UK TV Comedy show. Mrs Merton?)

Second time around.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Susi Orbach, author of ...

Angela Lansbury, author of:
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Wedding Speeches and Toasts
Who Said What When

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Quotations on Money

Clogs to clogs in three generations.

Money makes the world go around. (Song from the film Cabaret. Earlier origin.)

The love of money is the root of all evil. (Biblical.)

One law for the rich; another for the poor.

All that glitters is not gold.
(Shakespeare? Bible)

Micawber
Dickens

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Who Said What When?

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Quotations on funerals, being lost, and showing gratitude

Dorothy Parker

Funerals
I wasn't at his birth, so why should I be at his funeral?
Ringo Starr

It's your funeral.

You're a long time dead.

Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six.
(For anybody whose English is a second language, this quotation means it is better to shoot to kill, because it is better to be tried by a jury of twelve in a court than risk being carried to your grave in a coffin by twelve pall (coffin) bearers.)

Shoot first; ask questions later.

(Of US President: Coolidge, the laissez faire president whose policy was not to legislate or interfere with business.) He's dead? How to they know?
Dorothy Parker

There are not many people I would want to kill but there are several whose funerals I would attend with great pleasure.
Mark Twain

Don't speak ill of the dead.

I went to his funeral to be sure he was dead.
(About movie impresario Goldwyn?)

Gratitude
Show gratitude to the place where you started.
Chinese saying

The attitude of gratitude. (Book title - which came first, the saying or the book title?)

Lost
If you don't care where you are, you can never be lost.
Author unknown.

Pooh Bear

Angela Lansbury, author of Quick Quotations; Who Said What When (£7.50; $$10).
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Henry Ford: Can, Can't, Chopping, Heating, Exercise

Wood burning stoves are now being promoted in the UK as cheaper than grid gas and electricity. As the debt rages, on forums, commentators are quoting Henry Ford.

Henry Ford said, "A man that chops his own wood, heats himself twice".

My favourite Henry Ford saying:
If you think you can't, you can't. If you think you can, you can.

He also said of motor cars:

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.

You can have any colour you like, so long as it's black.
Angela Lansbury
Author of Quick Quotations

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