I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. — Stephen Leacock. Canadian writer and economist
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.