The world isn’t going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young. A. J. Liebling Read Quote
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy. A. J. Liebling Read Quote
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down. A. J. Liebling Read Quote
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas – stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows. A. J. Liebling Read Quote
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. A. J. Liebling Read Quote
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. A. J. Liebling Read Quote
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane. A. J. Liebling Read Quote
