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Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon. -- Oscar Wilde
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. -- Thomas Jefferson
Newspapers should have no friends. -- Joseph Pulitzer
Newspapers are the world's mirrors. -- James Ellis
Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration. -- Charles Emmerson
Newspapers are horror happening to other people. -- Nadine Gordimer
Newspapers are the second hand of history. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Newspapers are tutors as well as informers. -- Neil Kinnock
Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Newspapers don't write enough about serious religious issues. -- Sally Quinn
Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe. -- Carl Sandburg
Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke. -- Thomas Jefferson
Newspapers appeared like oracles on your doorstep- gilded fragments of anonymous love." -- Susan Rich
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. -- Karl Kraus
Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment. -- Charles Lamb
Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection. -- A. J. Liebling
Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence? -- Jimmy Breslin
Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion. -- Walter Lippmann
Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred. -- Bob Woodward
Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat. -- John Irving
Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants. -- Mick Rock
Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even disgusting. As evidence of that, just watch this space regularly. -- Mike Royko
Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism. -- Gordon Smith
Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings.How diligently they read them!Here they find their law and profits,their judges and chronicles,their epistles and revelations. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings.How diligently they read them!Here they find their law and profits,their judges and chronicles,their epistles and revelations. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth. -- Michael Jackson
Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow. -- Fuzzy Zoeller
Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper. -- Alain de Botton
Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly have time to read 'Gawker' anymore. -- Michael Specter
Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The newspaper offers something very different from Google's aggregators. It offers a value system, an idea of what matters in the world. Newspapers need to start articulating that value. -- Evgeny Morozov
You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss. -- Eduard Hanslick
Newspapers can make their own judgment in terms of who they support in a general election. Our responsibility is to make a considered judgment about where the national interest lies. -- Douglas Alexander
Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement. -- Malcolm Turnbull
Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers] -- Thurgood Marshall
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy. -- Harry Allen Overstreet
When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed. -- Charlie Chaplin
I read the newspaper. -- George W. Bush
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. -- Wendell Phillips
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. -- Thomas Jefferson
A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure. -- Arthur Baer
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. -- Spiro T. Agnew
The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings. -- Fulton J. Sheen
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. -- Aneurin Bevan
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers. -- Charles Spurgeon
If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun. -- Lars Ulrich
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. -- Henry Fielding
The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in -- Sumner Redstone
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent. -- Gore Vidal
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. -- Jerry Seinfeld
It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not. -- Ryan Holmes
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress -- Wendell Phillips
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. -- Thomas Jefferson
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure. -- I. F. Stone
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. -- Charles Baudelaire
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal
Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play. -- Chris Gabrieli
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins. -- Russell Baker
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. -- Malcolm X
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht
It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case. -- Bill James
I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30. -- Groucho Marx
Even the alternative weekly newspapers, traditionally a bastion of progressive thought and analysis, have been bought by a monopoly franchise and made a predictable shift to the right in their coverage of local news. -- Bernie Sanders
Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers. -- Cat Cora
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. -- Walt Whitman
If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets. -- Maynard James Keenan
The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally changed the media eco-system, challenging established journalistic practice in what is known as the mainstream media: radio, television, newspapers and magazines. -- Lionel Barber
There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media. -- Max Hastings
Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds? -- Upamanyu Chatterjee
A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us. -- Michael Moore
I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless. -- Russell Brand
We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers. -- Laura Bush
Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each other, there shouldn't be boundaries or fundamentalism. But I think literature is more than that; these are political views which most of us hold anyway. -- Arundhati Roy
I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film. -- Mary Ellen Mark
I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women. -- Annie Lennox
I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it's coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place, and as a result of that, the consumer is beginning to make decisions, not just on what things cost and the convenience of it. -- Howard Schultz
We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political campaign strategy. It is the theme of much television programming across the world. It sells newspapers. Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections. -- Henry B. Eyring
We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brother's winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips. -- Ann Hood
My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange. -- Florence Welch
Misery sells newspapers. -- Phil Gramm
Do not read the newspapers. -- Henry David Thoreau
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. -- Tom Stoppard
I don't read all the newspapers. -- Greg Rusedski
[On newspapers:] A first draft of history. -- Elizabeth Drew
The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers. -- Thomas Carlyle
In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer. -- Naomi Campbell
Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers. -- Upton Sinclair
I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies. -- Ken Livingstone
My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate. -- Annalena McAfee
And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers. -- Hanoi Hannah
Along with responsible newspapers we must have responsible readers. -- Arthur Hays Sulzberger
I would like all newspapers to become workers' co-operatives. -- Ken Livingstone
Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers. -- Andrew Card
Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it. -- Spiro T. Agnew
I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world. -- Rupert Murdoch
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. -- James G. Watt
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil. -- Jean de La Fontaine
He who only reads newspapers makes his mind a junkyard. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers? -- Henry David Thoreau
I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence. -- Will McDonough
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. -- A. J. Liebling
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Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis -- Ian Jack
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do? -- Kane
People care about what newspapers tell them to care about. -- Delia Parr
I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter. -- Janine di Giovanni
I think newspapers will survive in some form or another. -- Dan Jenkins
What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true. -- Patrick Kavanagh

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