Quotes by Journalists - Page 19

We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.
Heinrich Heine
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
Jim Bishop
They are doing away with drive-ins. Now where are the teenagers going to go to not watch a movie?
Bob Thomas
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
George Will
[A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Gabriel García Márquez
The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who by the mysterious influence of grace of sweetness and of love renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness.
Giuseppe Mazzini
You can see them alongside the shuffleboard courts in Florida or on the porches of the old folks' homes up north.... They are in love they have always been in love although sometimes they would have denied it. And because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them even their own failures.
Ernest Havemann
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
H.L. Mencken
Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them.
Moritz Saphir
That sovereign of insufferables.
Ambrose Bierce
Pity the human being who is not able to connect faith within himself with the infinite.... He who has faith has ... an inward reservoir of courage hope confidence calmness and assuring trust that all will come out well-even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
B.C. Forbes
If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure then believe.
Heinrich Heine
For the truly faithful no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt no miracle is sufficient.
Nancy Gibbs
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
Henry Christopher Bailey
The ultimate umpire of all things in life is - fact.
Agnes C. Laut
I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
Most people don't plan to fail they fail to plan.
John L. Beckley
Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.
Leigh Mitchell Hodges
One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.
James Reston
The man who has done his level best and who is conscious that he has done his best is a success even though the world may write him down a failure.
B.C. Forbes
There might be false starts and do-overs. You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.
Jane Pauley
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clémenceau
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.
George Horace Lorimer
Nothing succeeds like failure.
Rebecca West
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking. ... How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one that's wrong because it may never be right and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster you've tried you've learned something you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.
Edward McCabe
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost " and say "I lost it."
Sydney J. Harris
War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.
Georges Clémenceau
But to him who tries and fails and dies I give great honor and glory and tears.
Joaquin Miller
To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.
Walter Bagehot
Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.
Christopher Morley
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges Clémenceau
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish in the Palaozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide we sprawled in the ooze and slime.
Langdon Smith
I think laughter may be a form of courage.... As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
Linda Ellerbee
You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand but you play it.
James Brady
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses.
William Bolitho
What you can't get out of get into wholeheartedly.
Mignon McLaughlin
Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.
Irv Kupcinet
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed "dignity" to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!
B.C. Forbes
Pm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.
Judith Krantz
Charm is the measure of attraction's power To chain the fleeting fancy of the hour.
Louisa Thomas
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
Sheila Graham
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
Charles A. Cerami
As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.
Bebe Moore Campbell
There are three ingredients in the good life learning earning and yearning.
Christopher Morley
All the great pleasures in life are silent.
Georges Clémenceau
The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.
Wendy Michener
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
Alexander Woollcott
No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British which amazes Americans who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
Paul Gallico
Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change such as Bernard Shaw Keir Hardie Lloyd George Selfridge or Disraeli you will find that they are not really English at all but Irish Scotch Welsh American or Jewish. Englishmen make changes sometimes great changes. But secretly or openly they always deplore them.
Raymond Postgate
Snobbery - the "pox Britannica"
Anthony Sampson
George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.
Edmund C. Bentley
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
Christopher Morley
Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
William Cullen Bryant
Education n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.
Heinrich Heine
You can lead a man up to the university but you can't make him think.
Finley Peter Dunne