22 Quotations by Russell Baker
- 1. A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia get ...

- 2. A new star with a tremendous national appeal, the skill of a consummate showman.

- 3. A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 mile ...

- 4. Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

- 5. Disguises thinner than a Chicago stripteaser's work clothes.

- 6. I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages p ...

- 7. I was converted from fool when my spine was somewhat reorganized. What amazed me was how fast a perf ...

- 8. In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody el ...

- 9. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, ...

- 10. Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly? I say that what we really need is a car th ...

- 11. It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. ...

- 12. Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

- 13. New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a ...

- 14. People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the plea ...

- 15. People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

- 16. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

- 17. The lobbies of the new hotels and the Pan American Building exhale a chill as from the unopened Phar ...

- 18. The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that ...

- 19. The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

- 20. Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really pr ...

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