I'd love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can't count that high. Russell Lynes More Quotes by Russell Lynes More Quotes From Russell Lynes No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. Russell Lynes editing writing art It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. Russell Lynes candor honesty accepting Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing. Russell Lynes insults-you insulting wise Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today? Russell Lynes sarcastic stupid wise 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 comeback insult laughing A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman. Russell Lynes behave gentleman men Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice. Russell Lynes insults-you being-yourself wise Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you. Russell Lynes assumption wise facts Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go. Russell Lynes tennis addiction men 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. Russell Lynes learning teaching men Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. Russell Lynes secret games play The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the unwary, and challenges to smugness. It is a world of moods as well as of revelation, of beliefs and fears, of unpleasant truth as well as of delicious fantasy. Perhaps it is arrogant to say that anyone who does not venture into this world is only half-interested in life. I say it, nonetheless. Russell Lynes challenges mean art A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide. Russell Lynes definitions wife men Hi there, I'm a human being! What are you? Russell Lynes insult humans wise The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco. Russell Lynes cutting islands art I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong. Russell Lynes cool-status agree wise Don't let you mind wander - it's far too small to be let out on its own. Russell Lynes sarcastic wise mind A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes. Russell Lynes parenting successful children Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly? Russell Lynes insult ugly wise I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works. Russell Lynes insults-you sarcastic wise
