Ill news comes apace. [ Proverb ]
News, the manna of a day. [ Green ]
He that brings good news knocks hard. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
News as wholesome as the morning air. [ Chapman ]
The lame post brings the truest news. [ Proverb ]
Stay a little, and news will find you. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Now-a-days truth is the greatest news. [ Proverb ]
Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office; and his tongue
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
Remember'd tolling a departed friend. [ Shakespeare ]
The nature of bad news affects the teller. [ William Shakespeare ]
Evil news rides post, while good news bates. [ Milton ]
If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep.
My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. [ William Shakespeare ]
Though it be honest, it is never good
To bring bad news; give to a gracious message
An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell
Themselves when they be felt. [ William Shakespeare ]
Ill news is winged with fate, and flies apace. [ Dryden ]
Few dare write the true news of their chamber. [ Proverb ]
Go into the country to hear what news in town. [ Proverb ]
There is nothing new except what is forgotten. [ Mademoiselle Bertin ]
Laugh not too much: the witty man laughs least:
For wit is news only to ignorance.
Less at thine own things laugh: lest in the jest
Thy person share, and the conceit advance. [ George Herbert ]
He that tells his wife news is but newly married. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Gardener, for telling me these news of woe.
Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow. [ Shakespeare ]
Listen at a hole, and ye'll hear news o' yoursel'. [ Scotch Proverb ]
He knocks boldly at the door who brings good news. [ Proverb ]
Listen at the hole and you will hear news of yourself. [ Proverb ]
Friendship consists not in saying, What's the best news? [ Proverb ]
Good news may be told at any time, but ill in the morning. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He was scarce of news who told that his father was hanged. [ Proverb ]
Hence the unhappy news is spread abroad through the whole city. [ Virgil ]
Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches. [ Massinger ]
Master, master! news, old news, and such news as you never heard of. [ William Shakespeare ]
Tell him, there's a post come from my master, with his horn full of news. [ William Shakespeare ]
When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself. [ Zimmermann ]
Let the greater part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest. [ Quarles ]
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. [ Bovee ]
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty reasoning on policy, and vain conjectures on the public management. [ La Bruyere ]
The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes. [ De La Bruyere ]
Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him the news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance. Labor on character. [ Cobden ]
His tongue, like the tail of Samson's foxes, carries firebrands, and is enough to set the whole field of the world on a flame. Himself begins table-talk of his neighbor at another's board, to whom he bears the first news, and adjures him to conceal the reporter; whose choleric answer he returns to his first host, enlarged with a second edition; so as it used to be done in the fight of unwilling mastiffs, he claps each on the side apart, and provokes them to an eager conflict. [ Bishop Hall ]