Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. (Stephen leacock)
I think I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I’ll never see a tree at all. (Ogden Nash)
Blurbs that appear on the back cover and in the advertisements recommending the book in glowing terms … are written by friends of the author who haven’t read the book but owe the poor guy a favour. (Art Buchwald)