Keyword: Advertising

Advertising: The rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Eric Arthur Blair (1903 – 50) English author & journalist
Definitions

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


Characteristics Communication Honesty Lies Truth

If an item is advertised as "under $50," you can bet it's not $19.95.

Murphy’s Laws Shopping

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

(1909 – 1966) Polish poet, writer & aphorist
Characteristics Honesty Lies

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Marriage

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

(1869 – 1944) Canadian economist & humorist
Intelligence Money

I’ve written books on advertising… check books.

(1947 – ) English business magnate & media personality
Communication

Advertising: That which makes you think you’ve longed all your life for something you never even heard of.

Communication Definitions

[Poker] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find outside an advertising agency.

(1888 – 1959) detective novelist & screenwriter
Activities Communication Games

Advertising: The rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Eric Arthur Blair (1903 – 50) English author & journalist
Definitions

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Communication

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian
Characteristics Communication Money

The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turnoff.

(1946 – ) American comedian, actor & voice actor
Characteristics