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Newspaper Quotes by Mark Twain
- Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect…
- The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!
- I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me…
- The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to…
- Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human…
- I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when…
- You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that…
- If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
- A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.
- By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field
- If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
More Newspaper Quotes
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. — Russell Baker
- It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine… — Russell Baker
- Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna… — Russell Baker
- Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. — Dave Barry
- All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps,… — Mario Batali
- I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. — Charles Baudelaire
- Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent… — Charles Baudelaire
- When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but… — Glenn Beck
- The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than… — Henry Ward Beecher
- America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men. — Alexander Graham Bell
- I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper. — Halle Berry