[Sidney Lanier]

"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it." --STEPHEN LEACOCK

"Advertising is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission." --FRED ALLEN

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket." --GEORGE ORWELL

"Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless." --SINCLAIR LEWIS

"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better." --GEORGE SANTAYANA

"Advertising is legalized lying." --H. G. WELLS