Russell Baker Quotes

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.

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.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don`t work, those that break down and those that get lost.

This strange disease of modern...

Live by publicity, you`ll probably die by publicity.

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

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