Quotes by Russell Baker
“Americans like to believe that in the end justice will triumph. This is an article of faith. This is why we have juries.”— Russell Baker
“A group of politicians deciding to dump a President is like a dog attacking a porcupine.”— Russell Baker
“The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested on my flimsy evidence that I was lousy at everything else.”— Russell Baker
“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
“The dirty little secret is that most people are turning out to be human after all.”— 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
“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”— 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
“Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.”— Russell Baker
“For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to be left.”— Russell Baker
“Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back.”— Russell Baker