Showing posts with label Russell Baker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russell Baker. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Quotaria

‘The trouble with life isn't that there is no
answer, it's that there are so many answers.’
- Ruth Benedict


"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this
notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be
fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."
- Russell Baker

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the
government and report the facts."
- Will Rogers


"A James Cagney love scene is one
where he lets the other guy live."
- Bob Hope

"I know I am getting better at golf because
I am hitting fewer spectators."
- Gerald R. Ford

Even he, to whom most things that most
people would think were pretty smart were
pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
- Douglas Adams

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotes

"There are three social classes in
America: upper middle class, middle
class, and lower middle class."
- Judith Martin

"We need not to be let alone. We need to be
really bothered once in a while. How long is
it since you were really bothered? About
something important, about something real?"
- Ray Bradbury


"I've never struck a woman in my
life, not even my own mother."
- W. C. Fields

"The goal of all inanimate objects is to
resist man and ultimately defeat him."
- Russell Baker


"Anyone who says he can see
through women is missing a lot."
- Groucho Marx

"The purpose of life
is to fight maturity."
- Dick Werthimer

Friday, March 20, 2009

Quotes

"I have had a perfectly wonderful
evening, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx

"I believe a leaf of grass is no less
than the journey-work of the stars."
- Walt Whitman

"The manner of giving is
worth more than the gift."
- Pierre Corneille


"If not actually disgruntled, he
was far from being gruntled."
- P. G. Wodehouse

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra
and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
- Matt Groening

"People seem to enjoy things more when
they know a lot of other people have
been left out of the pleasure."
- Russell Baker

Monday, October 20, 2008

Quotes

"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die,
your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."
- George Carlin

"Age is not important
unless you're a cheese."
- Helen Hayes

"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

"Don't look back. Something
might be gaining on you."
- Satchel Paige

"The universe seems neither benign
nor hostile, merely indifferent."
- Carl Sagan

"Nine-tenths of wisdom
is being wise in time."
- Theodore Roosevelt

Saturday, October 04, 2008

Quotes

"You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on
its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep
in that position you can make a crowd of men."
- Max Beerbohm

"The best minds are not in government. If
any were, business would hire them away."
- Ronald Reagan

"Everyone wants to be Cary Grant.
Even I want to be Cary Grant."
- Cary Grant

"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

"I have a mind to join a club and
beat you over the head with it."
- Groucho Marx

"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full
of light and color are their last days."
- George Burns