Simpsons Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
1955
AUTHOR:
Linda Heath, psychologist
QUOTATION:
Readers like the grass to be browner on the other side of the fence, and the browner the better.
ATTRIBUTION:
On study showing that newspaper reports of violent crimes committed in other states appear to reassure readers of their own safety, quoted in NY Times 9 Sep 84