196 Quotes by 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.

forsan et haec olim meminisse invabit.” After great difficulty and with much help from the teacher I had worked this out to mean, “Someday we shall recall these trials with pleasure.

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.

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

Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

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

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.