Quotes by Editors - Page 3

In the clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody but unbowed.
William E. Henley
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Josephus Daniels
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun
Carelessness is not fatal to journalism nor are cliches for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the fact that his work by its very todayness is excluded from any share in tomorrow.
Cyril Connolly
News is the first rough draft of history.
Benjamin Bradlee
What you see is news what you know is background what you feel is opinion.
Lester Markel
A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail grow indispensable.
Cyril Connolly
Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
Erwin Knoll
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
Clifton Fadiman
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination but the combination is locked up in the safe.
Peter De Vries
After a debauch of thundershower the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
When people hear good music it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.
Edgar Watson Howe
Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you.
Holbrook Jackson
The great thing to learn about life is first not to do what you don't want to do and second to do what you do want to do.
Margaret Anderson
After all what's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
The Globe and Mail
A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion for the instinctual tribes must be satisfied.
Cyril Connolly
The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
Cyril Connolly
Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable and often impossible.
Edgar Watson Howe
It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
Charles Dudley Warner
Bland as a Jesuit sober as a hymn.
William Ernest Henley
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Cyril Connolly
The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.
Caskie Stinnet
Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.
Simeon Strunsky
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.
J.G. Holland
God gives every bird its food but he does not throw it into the nest.
Josiah G. Holland
Pray devoutly but hammer stoutly.
Sir William Gurney Benham
He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.
Sir William Gurney Benham
Unless I had the spirit of prayer I could do nothing.
Charles G. Finney
Power is always right weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.
Noah Webster
Short of genius a rich man cannot imagine poverty.
Charles Péguy
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan
Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
Susan Taylor
The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving if you are friendly if you are helpful the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.
Thomas Dreier
The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant we must think in limitless terms of abundance.
Thomas Dreier
Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? ... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.
Thomas Dreier
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who when they succeed at it become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
George Jean Nathan
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.
Cyril Connolly
Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally. ... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? . . . You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.
Thomas Dreier
A dog wags its tail with its heart.
Martin Buxbaum
Dogs laugh but they laugh with their tails.
Max Eastman
Broad acres are a patent of nobility and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface it is 4000 miles deep and that is a very handsome property.
Charles Dudley Warner
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.
Charles Péguy
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Edgar Watson Howe
Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.
James Hastings
Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat!
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
E. V. Lucas
And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains if we will only stop the waste and the idle useless regretting.
Arthur Brisbane
One must always tell what one sees. Above all which is more difficult one must always see what one sees.
Charles Péguy
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.
Cyril Connolly
In the clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody but unbowed.
William E. Henley
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Josephus Daniels
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun
Carelessness is not fatal to journalism nor are cliches for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the fact that his work by its very todayness is excluded from any share in tomorrow.
Cyril Connolly
News is the first rough draft of history.
Benjamin Bradlee
What you see is news what you know is background what you feel is opinion.
Lester Markel
A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail grow indispensable.
Cyril Connolly
Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
Erwin Knoll
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
Clifton Fadiman