News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten. — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
