Quotes
Quotes about News
Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news to mark again The bankrupt lists or price of grain. Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe, Yet, winter's leisure to regale, Hopes better times, and sips his ale.
Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.
Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.
Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?
He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks; News from all nations lumbering at his back.
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.
Literature is news that stays news.
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.
In poison there is physic; and these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick, Being sick, have in some measure made me well.
The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap and they know it.
Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward. - "Mr. Dooley's Opinions", 1900.
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. - Unkempt Thoughts, 1962.
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908.
News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day. - Skyline, 1961.
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on. - Mr. Citizen, 1960.
The sinews of business (or state).
The sinews of affairs are cut.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
