ADVERTISING

Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.
Aldous Huxley

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
Archibishop of Canterbury

Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth.
James R. Adams

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson

The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.
Samuel Johnson

However far your travels take you, you will never find the girl who smiles out at you from the travel brochure.
Source Unknown

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
Source Unknown

That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.
Samuel Goldwyn

If you don't believe in your product, of if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work.
Jay Levinson

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
Laurence J. Peter

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
John Enoch Powell

Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams -- Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.
E(lwyn) B(rooks) White

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.
Ogden Nash

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.
William Allen White

Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.
Stephen Bayley

Advertising is legalized lying.
H.G. Wells

Telling lies does not work in advertising.
Tim Bell

The right name is an advertisement in itself.
Claude Hopkins

How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French fries.
James French

If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney.
Leo Burnett

In order to sell a product or a service, a company must establish a relationship with the consumer. It must build trust and rapport. It must understand the customer's needs, and it must provide a product that delivers the promised benefits.
Jay Levinson

Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
Jerry Della Femina