#l

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ↗

— Russell Baker

#ah #like #make #power #suffer

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

#because #bump #church #deciding #dump

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them. ↗

— Russell Baker

#before #children #curiosity #finally #know

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

#break #categories #classified #down #get

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 #left #lot #more

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

#began #between #coded #gave #hostile

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent. ↗

— Russell Baker

#elizabeth #foreign #made #me #queen

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools. ↗

— Russell Baker

#cars #comes #cowards #fools #only

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

— Russell Baker

#earth #feel #history #like #makes

I believe in people. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#i #i believe #i believe in #people