Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old story quotes, story sayings, and story proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.Charles Anderson Dana
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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.Charles Baudelaire
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The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.Christopher Morley
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.Cyril Connolly
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News is history shot on the wing.Gene Fowler
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Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.George Bernard Shaw
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.Henry Fielding
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They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.James G. Watt
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Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.Erwin Knoll
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.Matthew Arnold
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I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.Napoleon
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No news is good news. No journalists is even better.Nicolas Bentley
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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.Norman Mailer
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In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.Mark Twain
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When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.M.P. Singh
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True love stories never have endings.Richard Bach
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In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.Edward Robert B. Lytton
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Master books, but doo not let them master you. - Read to live, not not live to read.Edward Robert B. Lytton
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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.E.M. Forster
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Books are lighthouses erected in quacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.Henry Ward Beecher
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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.James Bryce
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Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.John Ruskin
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The wise man reads both books and life itself.Lin Yutang
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.James Russell Lowell
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The man who does not read good books is at no advantage over the man that can't read them.Mark Twain
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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.Mortimer Adler
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Some men, in telling a fish story, will go to any length.Evan Esar
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There are two sides to every story until the gossips get hold of it.Evan Esar
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story but writes another.James M. Barrie