(a.k.a The Devil's Dictionary, New Millennia Edition)

     
     

 

Word:  advertisement

(Send This To Your Cynical Friends)

Share

Share this cynicism with the world (well, at least Facebook)

Cynical Quotations

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

— Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Rate it! | That is Funny | Sad, But True | That is Dumb | I Have a Better One!


Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

— Thomas Jefferson

Rate it! | That is Funny | Sad, But True | That is Dumb | I Have a Better One!


In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

— Charles Revlon

Rate it! | That is Funny | Sad, But True | That is Dumb | I Have a Better One!