Famous quotes by Journalists

"Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't"

Linda Ellerbee, Journalist

"I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion"

Robert MacNeil, Journalist

"Its language is as bare as a monk's cell, and as uninviting"

Clifford Longley, Journalist

"If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing"

Charles Krauthammer, Journalist

"There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable"

Robin Day, Journalist

"There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"Happiness is a direction, not a place"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

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