It is good news, worthy of all acceptation, and yet not too good to
be true.
- Matthew
(Mathew) Henry, Commentaries (I Timothy, I, 15)
Stay a little and news will find you.
- George
Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
. . . by evil
report and good report . . .
- Bible,
II Corinthians (ch. VI, v. 8)
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far
country.
- Bible,
Proverbs (ch. XXV, v. 25)
It's not the world that's gotten so much worse, but the news
coverage that's gotten so much better.
- Gilbert
Keith Chesterton
Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.
- John
Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis (l. 49)
Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound.
And news much older than their ale went round.
- Oliver
Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (l. 223)
