News Quotes

Gen Z-ers are really radical, and I’m relieved that the environment is a priority for them – I’m up for it! When I read the news, most of it won’t matter in 20 years. The only thing that really matters is how we deal with the environment.

Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.

Hardly a man takes a half-hour’s nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, “What’s the news?” as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels. Some give directions to be waked every half-hour, doubtless for no other purpose; and then, to pay for it, they tell what […]

If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter – we need never read of another. […]

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.

When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Tranquillity comprehends every wish I have left, and I think I should not even ask what news there is.

News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read. And it’s only news until he’s read it. After that it’s dead.

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. (Proverbs 25:25)

The word explains itself, without the muse, And the four letters speak from whence comes news. From North, East, West, South, the solution’s made, Each quarter gives accounts of war and trade.