Russell Baker quotes and words of wisdom

"In America nothing dies easier than tradition."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"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."
Found in the topic Writing.

"Inanimate objects are classed scientifically into three major categories: those that don"t work, those that break down and those that don"t get lost."
Found in the topic Objectivism.

"People who say you"re just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately."
Found in the topic Old.

"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down."
Found in the topic Automobiles.

"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure."
Found in the topic Enjoyment.

"The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him."
Found in the topic Defeat.

"Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O"Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it."
Found in the topic Poetry.

"Live by publicity, you"ll probably die by publicity."
Found in the topic False.

"In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses."
Found in the topic Sports.

"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
Found in the topic Summer.

"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."
Found in the topic Progress.

Interesting Quotes

Of those who say nothing, few are silent.Thomas Neill

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neatJohn Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy, 1981-1987 - US administrator (1942 - )