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Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission. -- Fred Allen

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. Steuart H. Britt

She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons,and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency. -- Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye, Chapter 24)

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.--Norman Douglas,_South Wind_ (1917) ch. 6

I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal consensus that even a glimpse of a Camel will force children to become lifelong smokers. -- Jonah Goldberg

Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising. Milton S. Hershey

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson in a letter in 1819 (his letter to Nathaniel Macon, in HL Mencken's Dictionary of Quotations)

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. ~Joseph E. Levine

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, especially if the goods are worthless. ~Sinclair Lewis

We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest. --Thomas Merton (1948), quoted in _Forces of Habit_, David T. Courtwright

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. --David Ogilvy (1911-____ )

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
George Orwell (1903-1950) "Quotable Business," ed. Louis E. Boone, 1992.

We are advertised by our loving friends. William Shakespeare, King Henry VI

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. Vilhjalmer Stefansson (11879 &endash; 1962)