A. J. Liebling

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#boot #enough #hard #just #long

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#ascetic #considered #debilitating #dispense #man

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#enemy #following #fun #good #good deal

The way to write is well, and how is your own business. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#how #own #way #well #write

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

#enough #going #just #like #really

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#concept #generally #more #poor #publishers