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

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…

- A. J. Liebling

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

- A. J. Liebling

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

- A. J. Liebling

I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.

- A. J. Liebling

In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Isl…

- A. J. Liebling

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

- A. J. Liebling

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

- A. J. Liebling

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

- A. J. Liebling