Russell Baker > Quotes

“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

“Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.”
― Russell Baker

“Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.”
― Russell Baker

“Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.”
― Russell Baker

“Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost”
― 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

“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