Best humorous & advertising Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things!”

“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.”

Ifs Writing Trying Kind Worst Humorous Advertising Hens Baloney

Author:Leo Burnett

“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”

“Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?”

“The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.”

Motivational Truth Humorous Historical Newspapers Advertising Truthful Advertisements Being Truthful Adverts Advertising And Marketing

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?”

People Knows Looks Humorous Advertising Dull Do You Know Ads Personal Grooming

Author:William Bernbach

“As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.”

World Firsts Light Young Force Four Humorous Profession Advertising Impulse Charter

Author:Bruce Barton

“I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape) any of us had ever seen. It looked psychedelic, yet it was done by ad people. I believe the word "hype" was coined on that very day.”

People Believe Done Remember I Believe Rocks Band Humorous Presses Advertising Ads Psychedelic Hype Grapes Roger Rock Bands Hanging Around Communes

Book:If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!

Source: If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!

“Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You."”

Purpose Humorous Exciting Advertising Trends Ads Sole

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.”

Television Humorous Election Advertising Presidential Candidates Presidential Election Television Commercials

Author:David Ogilvy

“I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.”

Successful Depends Humorous Advertising Beach Pretending Engagement Conventions Clients Spouse Polygamy Pebbles

Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“To advertisers: "Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?"”

Creative Dog Humorous Areas Advertising Agency Bark Advertisers

Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.”

Happens Deals Products Humorous Advertising Faster Adverts Great Advertising Advertising Business Advertisement Negative

Book:From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harb: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War

Source: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harb: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War

“Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce you for refusing to spend forty hours a week making up lies about toilet paper.”

Source: The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig

“Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.”

Littles Dangerous Humorous Advertising Dangerous Things Copywriting

Book:The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money

Source: The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money

“Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.”

“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.”

People Want Needs Looks Hard Tvs Products Humorous Sells Wine Advertising Why Not Pot Adverts Good Wine

Author:Ogden Nash

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