Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.
If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved. - Russell Lynes
If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.
- Russell Lynes
Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go. - Russell Lynes
Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. - Russell Lynes
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.
A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman. - Russell Lynes
A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. - Russell Lynes
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
The most effective comeback to an insult is silence. - Russell Lynes
The most effective comeback to an insult is silence.
Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing. - Russell Lynes
Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing.
Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today? - Russell Lynes
Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?
Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice. - Russell Lynes
Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.
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