An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON NEWSPAPERS
I keep reading between the lies.
Goodman Ace (1899-1982, American author, radio personality, TV producer)
A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
Arthur Baer
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821, French general, emperor)
A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.
Richard J. Daley
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870, British novelist)
Headlines twice the size of the events.
John Galsworthy (1867-1933, British novelist, playwright)
Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.
William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951, American newspaper publisher)
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856, German poet, journalist)
I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
Ben Johnson (1572-1637, British clergyman, poet, painter)
I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826, American President (3rd))
The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826, American President (3rd))
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826, American President (3rd))
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826, American President (3rd))
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834, British essayist, critic)
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
Abbott Joseph Liebling (1904-1963, American journalist)
Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Norman Mailer (1923-, American author)
A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller (1915-, American dramatist)
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
George Orwell (1903-1950, British author, "Animal Farm")
All I know is just what I read in the papers.
Will Rogers (1879-1935, American humorist, actor)
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892, British Baptist preacher)
Republicans study the financial pages of the newspaper. Democrats put them in the bottom of the bird cage.
Will Stanton
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
Tom Stoppard (1937-, Czech playwright)
It is the newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.
Wilbur F. Storey (1819-1884, American editor, Chicago times)
For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.
Louis Adolphe Thiers
I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing, but man's failures.
Earl Warren (1891-1974, American politician, judge)
Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
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