Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.
- Chase, Stuart

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Jefferson, Thomas

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick...
- Johnson, Samuel

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Leacock, Stephen B.

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