Quotes by Russell Baker

Explore a curated collection of 30 quotes by Russell Baker. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

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 — Russell Baker
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. — Russell Baker
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very oft — Russell Baker
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to rea — Russell Baker
One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by — Russell Baker
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bum — Russell Baker
Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All — Russell Baker
New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. — Russell Baker
So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoi — Russell Baker
I've had an unhappy life thank God. — Russell Baker
When you're the only pea in the pod your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond. — Russell Baker
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime and should be taken in small — Russell Baker
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime and should be taken in small — Russell Baker
When compelled to cook I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag. — Russell Baker
Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rheto — Russell Baker
Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and sma — Russell Baker
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention — Russell Baker
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. — Russell Baker
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break — Russell Baker
Americans like fat books and thin women. — Russell Baker