Russell Baker Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Russell Baker Quotes and Sayings


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    A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
  • 3
    Americans like fat books and thin women. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    In America nothing dies easier than tradition. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    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. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF
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    You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart. Russell Baker | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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