Top 22 Quotes by A. J. Liebling

About A. J. Liebling

These are some quotes by American author A. J. Liebling Journalist, who lived between October 18, 1904 and December 28, 1963.

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

A. J. Liebling

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

A. J. Liebling

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

A. J. Liebling

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

A. J. Liebling

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

A. J. Liebling

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

A. J. Liebling

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

A. J. Liebling

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

A. J. Liebling

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

A. J. Liebling

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

A. J. Liebling

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