Charles A. Dana quotes

Charles A. Dana quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.”
-- Charles A. Dana

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“Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.”
-- Charles A. Dana

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“What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.”
-- Charles A. Dana

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“Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.”
-- Charles A. Dana

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“I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report.”
-- Charles A. Dana

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“All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.”
-- Charles A. Dana

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“Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.”

Source : She-Shanties (1926) "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight"
“Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”
“[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.”

Source : Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.136, Random House
“Whenever I'm about to eat meat I always see my little dog's eyes.”
“This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.”
“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”
“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”
“It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.”
“No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.”

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