Top 25 Newspapers Quotes of 219 - Page 5

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Charles Spurgeon

Listening, Wish, Newspapers

You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.

Brenda Fassie

Newspapers, Knows

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

Bob Schieffer

Newspapers, Accounts, Persons

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophical, Hands, Newspapers

Arthur Schopenhauer, Ernest Belfort Bax (1891). “Selected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: With Biographical Introduction and Sketch of His Philosophy”

A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.

Arthur Brisbane

Mirrors, Newspapers, Reflecting

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

Andrew Card

Magazines, Newspapers, Accurate

Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

Andrew Card

Believe, Newspapers, Don't Believe

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Literature, Newspapers

Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can’t give in to extortion.

Alexander Lebedev

Giving, Culture, Newspapers

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

Alain de Botton

Crowds, Stuff, Newspapers

Twitter post from May 11, 2012

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

Van Wyck Brooks

Book, Mind, Newspapers

Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”

I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

Government, Newspapers

Foreign newspapers: if they've got nothing to hide, how come they don't print them in English?

Stephen Colbert

Newspapers, Print, Ifs

"Ice cream? Immigration? 12 ways Colbert kept truthiness alive" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, www.today.com. April 10, 2014.

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

Russell Baker

Ruins, Authority, Newspapers

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

Roy Hattersley

Men, Opinion, Newspapers

"Maxwell: The Outsider". Book by Tom Bower, 1988.

The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive.

Paul LePage

Alive, Life Is, Newspapers

"LePage slams newspapers, revs up GOP faithful during Auburn rally" By Scott Thistl, bangordailynews.com. August 28, 2014.

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

James F. Cooper

Tyrants, Newspapers, Tyranny

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

James Ellis

Mirrors, World, Newspapers

Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.

Horace Greeley

Progress, Ink, Newspapers

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

Henry Ward Beecher

Blood, Body, Newspapers

Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.245

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

Franklin Knight Lane

Men, Class, Newspapers

I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.

Daniel Okrent

Believe, I Believe, Newspapers

"It's curtains for Okrent". Interview with Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.

Washington newspaper men know everything.

Buffalo Bill

Men, Newspapers, Knows

Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.364, U of Nebraska Press