Quotes by : Russell Baker

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

I've had an unhappy life thank God.

We watched some of the movie. It was shocking. Sex is apparently hard labor. Various persons supported....

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their....

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing....

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime and should....

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office....

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles....

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress....