Logo
Quote by Russell Baker
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progre

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

Other quotes by Russell Baker

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

Category:
Poetry
Author
Russell Baker
Read Quote

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. – Russell Baker

Category:
Poetry
Author
Russell Baker
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Excuses
category

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. – Edward R. Murrow

Category:
Excuses

If you dont want to do something, one excuse is as good as another. – Yiddish Proverb

Category:
Excuses

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Womens Movement. – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Category:
Excuses

If you always make excuses to not follow through you deserve the weight of anxiety on your chest. – Daniel, @blindedpoet

Category:
Excuses

Random Quotes

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. – Jane Austen

Category:
Business

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. – George Moore

Category:
Being in Love

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science. – William Jennings Bryan

Category:
Science

Smile at a stranger. See what happens. – Patti LuPone

Category:
smile