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.

Quote by Russell Baker

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It seems to be a law of American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except...

It seems to be a law of American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except...

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most...

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most...

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a...

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a...

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have...

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have...

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on canned laughter grafted by gaglines by...

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on canned laughter grafted by gaglines by...

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when...

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when...

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion...

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion...

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure...

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure...

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a...

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a...

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not...

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not...

Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that...

Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that...

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those...

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those...

Americans like fat books and thin women.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the...

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the...