Quotes by Journalists - Page 5

Laugh and the world laughs with you snore and you sleep alone.
Katharine Whitehorn
We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin
When compelled to cook I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag.
Russell Baker
I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
Molly Ivins
Vice goes a long way tow'rd makin' life bearable. A little vice now an' thin is relished by th' best iv men.
Finley Peter Dunne
Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy.
H.L. Mencken
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Albert Camus
Truth for him was a moving target he never aimed for the bull and rarely pierced the outer ring.
Hugh Cudlipp
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
Walter Lippman
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery and every truth easily becomes a lie.
J. F. Stone
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.
William Cullen Bryant
True love is night jasmine a diamond in darkness the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles fashioned of fleecy clouds a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.
Jim Bishop
Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'Tis better than many aver For while we've a whole lot of troubles The most of them never occur.
Nixon Waterman
Poems are made by fools like me But only God can make a tree.
Joyce Kilmer
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you for Paris is a movable feast.
Ernest Hemingway
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
Alexander Chase
A wonderful stream is the River Time As it runs through the realms of Tears With a faultless rhythm and a musical rhyme As it blends with the ocean of Years.
Benjamin F. Taylor
Once in Persia reigned a king Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and wise Which if held before the eyes Gave him counsel at a glance Fit for every change and chance. Solemn words and these are they: "Even this shall pass away."
Theodore Tilton
Time is a great legalizer even in the field of morals.
H.L. Mencken
Backward turn backward O Time in your flight Make me a child again just for tonight.
Elizabeth Akers Allen
If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own lives have one.
Albert Camus
The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.
Alex Haley
The smallest effort is not lost Each wavelet on the ocean tost Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow Each struggle lessens human woe.
Charles Mackay
If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job huge amounts of money a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If on the other hand happiness depends on a good breakfast flowers in the yard a drink or a nap then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
Andy Rooney
You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction.
Alvin Toffler
It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
William Cobbett
One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time take one step at a time we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.
Dorothy Day
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two and I know it was not the last blow that did it but all that had gone before.
Jacob A. Riis
Time is a great legalizer even in the fields of morals.
H.L. Mencken
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
Walter Lippmann
No Winter lasts forever no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep and we know it.
Hal Borland
Summer ends and Autumn comes and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
Hal Borland
I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music we become inexplicably troubled.
H. M. Tomlinson
Th' prisidincy is th' highest office in th' gift iv th people. Th' vice-prisidincy is th' next highest an' the lowest. It isn't a crime exactly. Ye can't be sint to jail f r it but it's a kind iv a disgrace.
Finley Peter Dunne
Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. ... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely because only the future has intrigued them.
William Allen White
It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.
J. A. Spender
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus
It is difficult to live in the present ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
Jim Bishop
Who controls the past controls the future who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
Don't waste today regretting yesterday instead of making a memory for tomorrow.
Laura Palmer
I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
We are here and it is now. Further than that all knowledge is moonshine.
H.L. Mencken
He growled at morning noon and night And trouble sought to borrow Although today the sky was bright He knew t'would storm tomorrow A thought of joy he could not stand And struggled to resist it Though sunshine dappled all the land This sorry pessimist it.
Nixon Waterman
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not.... We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
Joan Didion
Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.
Agnes Meyer
These are the stories that never never die that are carried like seed into a new country are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.
Meridel Le Sueur
The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries rinsed of debris sweetened judiciously and served in small portions not very often.
Laura Palmer
Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.
Hal Boyle
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.
Horace Greeley
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.
Gabriel García Márquez
Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
John Beecher
Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it and it has never been adopted there.
Walter Cronkite
A man's home is his wife's castle.
Alexander Chase
Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.
Walter Lippman
In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city everyone does not - only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.
Jane Jacobs
A hick town is one in which there is no place to go where you shouldn't be.
Alexander Woollcott
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Christopher Morley
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.
Albert Camus
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
Troy Anderson