John B. Bogart
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Full Name: John Barrett Bogart
Birthdate: 1848
Date of Death: 1921
Occupation: Columnist, Editor, and Reporter
Profile: City editor of
The Sun (1873–1890).
Website: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9800E7DE113CE533A2575BC1A9679D946095D6CF
Number of Quotes: 6
Anybody can criticize; it takes brains to praise.
News is something that somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.
This is his most famous quote, often paraphrased. It is sometimes given as: News
is anything that somebody doesn't want printed; all the rest is advertising.
The sun is too hot, the clouds are too wet, the dust is too dusty, the pavements are too hard, and the whole thing is too stale.
A lesser-known, more literary observation about the weariness of city life.
When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.
This is the maxim for which Bogart is
most frequently cited, though it is often misattributed to others.
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
Often paraphrased.
When you see a snake, just kill it.
Condensed version of the rattlesnake remark.
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