Author: Jerry Della Femina

Quotes

I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.

I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.

- Jerry Della Femina

The French are simply incapable of telling the truth.

The French are simply incapable of telling the truth.

- Jerry Della Femina

Kids don't know what life was like without cell phones.

Kids don't know what life was like without cell phones.

- Jerry Della Femina

Husbands and wives fight, and when the wife is packing up, the husband says, 'Don't leave! I'm gonna change!' Marriages stay together because people promise to change.

Husbands and wives fight, and when the wife is packing up, the husband says, 'Don't leave! I'm gonna change!' Marriages stay together because people promise to change.

- Jerry Della Femina

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

- Jerry Della Femina

Life was easy was back in the days before human resource departments controlled business and someone decided we all should be politically correct.

Life was easy was back in the days before human resource departments controlled business and someone decided we all should be politically correct.

- Jerry Della Femina

Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.

Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.

- Jerry Della Femina

There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

- Jerry Della Femina

In the '50s and '60s, a family's first child went into the priesthood, the second went into the military, and the third child was an idiot and wound up in advertising.

In the '50s and '60s, a family's first child went into the priesthood, the second went into the military, and the third child was an idiot and wound up in advertising.

- Jerry Della Femina

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