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Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.
- Russell Baker
#Fun
#Humor
#Late
#Lost
#People
You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.
- Russell Baker
#Big
#Feel Good
#Good
#Opportunity
#Smile
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
- Russell Baker
#Myself
#New
#Poetry
#Up
#World
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
- Russell Baker
#Company
#Longer
#Loves
#Misery
#Nowadays
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
- Russell Baker
#Poetry
#School
#Until
#Us
#Vital
There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.
- Russell Baker
#Business
#Finance
#Journalism
#Problems
Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.
- Russell Baker
#Fear
#Inspirational
#Nothing
#Rhetoric
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.
- Russell Baker
#Car
#Down
#Efficiency
#Need
#Shot
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
- Russell Baker
#Defeat
#Inanimate
#Man
#Objects
#Resist
The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.
- Russell Baker
#Best
#Business
#Management
#Own
#Trouble
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
- Russell Baker
#Done
#Just
#Progress
#Society
#Things
The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
- Russell Baker
#About
#Being
#Other
#Tourist
#Worst
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
- Russell Baker
#Bad
#Church
#Like
#Politicians
#Together
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.
- Russell Baker
#Airport
#Loss
#Poetry
#Through
#Will
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
- Russell Baker
#Enjoy
#Know
#More
#People
#Pleasure
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
- Russell Baker
#Humanity
#Politics
#Rest
#Thrive
#World
Americans like fat books and thin women.
- Russell Baker
#Books
#Fat
#Like
#Thin
#Women
Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.
- Russell Baker
#Feel Good
#Feel
#Good
#Hands
#Human
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
- Russell Baker
#Down
#Lost
#Science
#Three
#Work
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
- Russell Baker
#Best
#Dead
#Education
#Information
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
- Russell Baker
#Like
#Make
#Nature
#Power
#Summer
#Us
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
- Russell Baker
#Children
#Grow
#Parenting
#Try
#Up
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
- Russell Baker
#Car
#Cowards
#People
#Possible
#Two
Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.
- Russell Baker
#Amazing
#Hear
#Listen
#Once
#While
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