Forbes: Thoughts... on Press

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Thoughts

Thoughts

04.30.10, 10:20 PM EDT
Forbes Asia Magazine dated May 10, 2010

If the press should ever be loved it would have to be either lapsed, lousy, or both. -- Malcolm Forbes

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
--Oscar Wilde

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous--licentious--abominable--infernal--Not that I ever read them--NO--I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
--Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Mother … considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage full of cobras.
--Margaret Truman

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
--James Fenimore Cooper

Any publicity is good publicity.
--Proverb

News is like food; it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.
--Rose Macaulay

Good news may be told at any time, but ill in the morning.
--Proverb

Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.
--Amy Vanderbilt

On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought scroll;
On plastic clay and leathern scroll,
Man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed,
And lo! The Press was found at last!
--John Greenleaf Whittier

Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers?
--Jean Anouilh

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
--Thomas Jefferson

Isn't it amazing that there's no copyright on your own life?
--Sarah Miles

The price of justice is eternal publicity.
--Arnold Bennett

This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.
--Peter Ustinov

He that tells his wife news is but newly married.
--Proverb

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
--Christopher Lasch

The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
--Theodore Roosevelt

Bad news travels fast.
--Proverb

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.
--Christabel Pankhurst

While the press can't tell people what to think, it certainly can tell them what to think about.
--Anonymous

He that brings good news, knocks hard.
--Proverb

Report me and my cause aright.
--William Shakespeare

A Text ... As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. --Proverbs 25:25