Enough Quote by A. J. Liebling

It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity…

— 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

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…

— 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.

— A. J. Liebling

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

— A. J. Liebling

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough…

— A. J. Liebling

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

— 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 city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and…

— A. J. Liebling

There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you…

— A. J. Liebling

If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And…

— A. J. Liebling

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

— A. J. Liebling