196 Quotes by Russell Baker

Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there’s combat to be done.

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

When compelled to cook, I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag.

The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries,' say the menus, but they are not French fries any longer. They are a furry-textured substance with the taste of plastic wood.

Either possibility could account for a growing sense that the good times were behind me, and the serious times ahead.

Good times, though, are not the best times for a reporter.

A team is a mutual protection society formed to guarantee that no one person can be to blame for a botched committee job that one man would have performed satisfactorily.