Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old newspaper quotes, newspaper sayings, and newspaper proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.Don Marquis
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.Charles Lamb
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Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.Neil Kinnock
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Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.Oscar Wilde
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A daily newspaper should report the news, not play at geopolitics.Rafael Correa
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A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.Arthur Brisbane
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A good newspaper is never quite good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.Garrison Keillor
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The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.G.K. Chesterton
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Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.Karl Kraus
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.Nadine Gordimer
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A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.Richard Cobden
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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.George Bernard Shaw
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Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.Dave Barry
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Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.Mahatma Gandhi
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Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can't give in to extortion.Alexander Lebedev
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A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.Richard J. Daley
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A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.Claud Cockburn
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.Adlai Stevenson I
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Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.Spiro T. Agnew
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Owning a newspaper does not confer immunity.Alexander Lebedev
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Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.Mahatma Gandhi
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The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.John Fowles
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A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.Arthur Baer
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Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?Jimmy Breslin
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The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.Henry Ward Beecher
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The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.Sienna Miller
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Newspapers don't write enough about serious religious issues.Sally Quinn
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If newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.James Fenimore Cooper