Quotes by Russell Baker

Russell Baker

A $10 million windfall? At today’s prices, I’d feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.

Bars

Dimes

One Day

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man’s pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

Earth

Men

Soul

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.

America

Political

Sunday

A man doesn’t amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that’s all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.

Careers

Men

Successful

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a ‘Dear Murph’ letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan’s father in a film.

Exercise

Father

Writing

A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a ‘megadeath’ a ‘million corpses’ than an embalmer would refer to a ‘loved one’ as a ‘stiff.’

Jobs

Thinking

War

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn’t have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

Airports

Railroads

Towns

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.

Political

President

Stories

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

Problem

Solve

Two

After that [father’s death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone’s God except indifference, nor loved deeply without fear that it would cost me dearly in pain. At the age of five I had become a skeptic and began to sense that any happiness that came my way might be the prelude to some grim cosmic joke.

Father

Pain

Real

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Arrogance

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Authority

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Bars

Baseball

Behinds

Believe

Berlin

Birth

Birthday

Book

Brain

Break Up

Breaking Down

Bridges

British

Car

Careers

Causes

Caution

Children

Christian

Cities

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Quotes by Russell Baker

Russell Baker

A $10 million windfall? At today’s prices, I’d feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man’s pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

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.

A man doesn’t amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that’s all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.

A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a ‘megadeath’ a ‘million corpses’ than an embalmer would refer to a ‘loved one’ as a ‘stiff.’

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn’t have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.

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

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