advertising - quotes

Stephen (Butler) Leacock, 1869-1944

was a Canadian economist and humorist

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

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), 1835-1910

was an US humorist, novelist, short story author, and wit

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

George Santayana, 1863-1952

was an US (Spanish-born) philosopher

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