Quotes About Newspapers

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.

You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.

My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

I have never seen a public man who more quickly, shrewdly, efficiently got through a pile of Sunday newspapers than Calvin Coolidge. I was interested in his skill. It revealed a sharp mind, a lively set of brains. He rose abruptly after his morning stint of reading, walked out of the smoking-room without saying a word; indeed he had passed less than a dozen syllables during the hour and a half while we sat watching him above the rims of our papers.

I was sorry to read in yesterday's evening papers that your house was recently burglarised while you were elsewhere propounding the moral virtues of private enterprise. I'm sure you'll be able to see the funny side of it! I expect your mistake was to inform the robbery squad at your local police station that your house would be empty. That's always asking for trouble.

See you in the funny papers.' Johnny Eager From all Johnny Eager - Private Eye books Johnny's favorite saying

It hung heavily albeit secretly over the internal calculation of Democratic leaders of the period. But of course it was never discussed in the major newspapers and magazine articles that analyzed policy making in Vietnam. It was a secret subject, reflecting secret fears.

Hitler saw the random bickering of the newspapers of the democratic countries as an inexcusable frittering-away of a vital national resource. He considered that the press could become a powerful instrument of national policy.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers.

The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.

More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.