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Hly2004  [More info]

Good wine needs no bush , and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.

see link:

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/marshallmc120168.html

What's the meaning of the sentence and the word "bush"?

Thank you in advance!Stick out tongue [:P]
Hly2004
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+1 nona the brit  [More info]

It means that something that is good does not need advertising.

Ancient Greek wine sellers used to hang a branch of ivy outside to advertise their wine shop (in the way that shops still have signs to advertise their contents).

Good wine needs no bush is a phrase that has been used by Shakespear and others, but I wouldn't say it is all that current, in British English, anyway. I'd never heard of it and went on an internet search for this info.
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+1 Forbes  [More info]
I have encountered the phrase, but never actually heard anyone use it. It means that if someone provides a good service or product, advertising is not necessary as it will spread by word of mouth
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Good Wine Needs no Bush

 Education does not make you happy. And nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free, if we are, or because we have been educated, if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realise we’re happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance, the confidence, to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.

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