Famous quotes by Journalists

"House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

Erma Bombeck

"Never accept a drink from a urologist"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

Erma Bombeck

"Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

Andy Rooney

"The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram"

Don Marquis, Journalist

Don Marquis

"A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?"

Don Marquis, Journalist

Don Marquis

"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure"

Russell Baker, Journalist

Russell Baker

"A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works"

Bill Vaughan, Journalist

Bill Vaughan

"Americans like fat books and thin women"

Russell Baker, Journalist

Russell Baker

"In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses"

Russell Baker, Journalist

Russell Baker

"Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it"

Russell Baker, Journalist

Russell Baker

"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves"

Bill Vaughan, Journalist

Bill Vaughan

"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong"

Bill Vaughan, Journalist

Bill Vaughan

"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

Malcolm Muggeridge

"Between lovers, a little confession is a dangerous thing"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

Mignon McLaughlin

"I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts"

Martin Bashir, Journalist

Martin Bashir

"Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

Walter Lippmann

"Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery"

Walter Winchell, Journalist

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out"

Walter Winchell, Journalist

"Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you"

Walter Winchell, Journalist

"A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat"

Katherine Whitehorn, Journalist

"No nice men are good at getting taxis"

Katherine Whitehorn, Journalist

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say"

Italo Calvino, Journalist

Italo Calvino

"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts"

Italo Calvino, Journalist

Italo Calvino

"Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts"

Max Lerner, Journalist

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

Ann Coulter

"Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

Ann Coulter

"Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow. The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so"

Marya Mannes, Journalist

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