Arthur Brisbane
Birthdate: December 12, 1864
Birthplace: Buffalo, New York, USA
Date of Death: December 25, 1936
Occupation: Editor and Writer
Profile: Regarded as one of the greatest American newspaper editors of the 20th century.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Brisbane
Number of Quotes: 26
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
A great newspaper is a mirror of its time.
An editor is a man who separates the wheat from the chaff — and then prints the chaff.
Be brave. If you are not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
Easy come, easy go.
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
Get the facts, or the facts will get you.
Happiness is a habit — cultivate it.
If you don’t hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity.
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Speak softly, but carry a big stick.
Often associated with Theodore Roosevelt, but
widely repeated in journalism circles during Brisbane's era;
included here only because it appears in collections attributed to him — attribution debated.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.
The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it is accurate, it follows that it is fair.
The more you tell, the more you sell.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
Often misattributed to Oscar Wilde,
but Brisbane popularized this phrase in his editorials.
There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.
There is only one thing more vital to a newspaper than an immediate profit, and that is self-respect.
Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.
Popularized in American journalism; attribution to Brisbane is
commonly cited but historically debated.
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary
sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
When you are through changing, you are through.
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