Quotes from Charles Adams

The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.

ARISTIDES Father of Just Taxation He drew up a list of assessments not only with scrupulous integrity and justice, but also in such a way that all states felt they had been justly and fairly taxed. . . . The levy of Aristides was a golden age for the allies of Athens. —Plutarch, Life of Aristides

Death ray, fiddlesticks! Why, it doesn't even slow them up!