Abbott Joseph "A. J." Liebling (October 18, 1904 – December 28, 1963) was an American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death. Read full biography of A. J. Liebling →
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and... →
Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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 Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in... →
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they... →
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough... →
If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before... →
Abbott Joseph "A. J." Liebling (October 18, 1904 – December 28, 1963) was an American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death.