(1941 quotes found)
“More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging.”
Dave Barry
“Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.”
“Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.”
William S. Burroughs
“If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled”
Will Rogers
“And where two waging fires meet togetherThey do consume the thing that feeds their fury.Though little fire grows great with little wind,Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.”
William Shakespeare
“The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.”
David Ogilvy
“Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.”
Marquis De Sade
“It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.”
Daniel Akaka
“As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.”
Antisthenes
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