"Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all."
- Thomas Carlyle
"Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."
- Finley Peter Dunne
"Remember son many a good story has been ruined by over-verification."
- James Gordon Bennett
"Don't be afraid to make a mistake your readers might like it."
- William Randolph Hearst
"One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance."
- Clifton Fadiman
"Journalism is literature in a hurry."
- Matthew Arnold
"If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today ' we sigh."
- Paul Valery
"The sports page records people's accomplishments the front page usually records nothing but man's failures."
- Earl Warren
"Carelessness is not fatal to journalism nor are cliches for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the fact..."
- Cyril Connolly
"He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers."
- George Ade