Best Quotes by John Gunther (Top 10)
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All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
John Gunther
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One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.
John Gunther
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Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
John Gunther
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Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.
John Gunther
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What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.
John Gunther
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Live while you live, then die and be done with.
John Gunther
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What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.
John Gunther
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The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.
John Gunther
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There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
John Gunther
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The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.
John Gunther