Journalist Quotes

People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day, we have a lot of catching up to do.

I'm aware of the writers who have previously received the Gold Dagger and I'm honoured to have my name on the same page.

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.