Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
~Samuel Johnson
Our society’s values are being corrupted by advertising’s insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
~John Fisher
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
~Rene Descartes
Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.
~Marya Mannes
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
~George Orwell
Advertising is only another form of statistics.
~Hartman Jule
The most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements.
~Thomas Jefferson
The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.
~Leonard Bernstein
The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.
~Unknown
Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.
~Edgar A. Shoaff
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
~Mark Twain
So long as there’s a jingle in your head, television isn’t free.
~Jason Love
Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.
~Edgar A. Shoaff
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
~J.B. Priestley
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.
~Will Rogers
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
~Bill Cosby
The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity.
~George Carlin
Advertising is a bit like playing make-believe.
~Hartman Jule
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
~Abraham Lincoln
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
~George Orwell
I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes…
~Philip Dusenberry
Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.
~Author Unknown