Famous quotes by Journalists

"A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"Surely the glory of journalism is its transience"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"He was not only a bore; he bored for England"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"Travel, of course, narrows the mind"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck"

Claud Cockburn, Journalist

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"In a free society, the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice"

Paul Harvey, Journalist

"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these"

Paul Harvey, Journalist

"I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist"

Paul Harvey, Journalist

"Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be"

Paul Harvey, Journalist

"Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people"

Paul Harvey, Journalist

"If I can bicycle, I bicycle"

David Attenborough, Journalist

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