Russell Baker Famous Quotes
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
"I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world."
"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
"Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."
"People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately."
Russell Baker Quotations
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
Jean Paul
Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson
"The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf."
Bertrand Russell
"If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor."
Haitian Proverb
"Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly."
Aldus Manutius
"Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals."
Henry Louis Mencken
"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."
Marvin
"Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top."
Timothy Leary
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."
Jean Kerr