196 Quotes by Russell Baker

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

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

Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.