Russell Baker Life Quotations

Life is always walking up to us and saying, ''Come on in, the living's find,'' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

It seems to be a law of American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic

Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

There's so much spectating going on that a lot of us never get around to living.

I've had an unhappy life, thank God.

While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.

Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.