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.The Sunday World was a dry-stall interlude in my wanderings.
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
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
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…
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
I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. - A. J. Liebling
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior. - A. J. Liebling
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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
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…
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. - A. J. Liebling
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. - A. J. Liebling
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
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
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
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