51 ordspråk av Russell Baker
Russell Baker
 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 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 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 solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to. |
| Ah, summer - what power you have to make us suffer and like it |
| Americans like fat books and thin women. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Can't anything be done about calling these guys student athletes? That's like referring to Attila the Hun's cavalry as "weekend warriors" |
| Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity. |
| Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. |
| Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. |
| 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. |
| I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world. |
| In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. |
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