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
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. – Russell Lynes
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
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
In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste. – Russell Lynes
The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon. – Russell Lynes
A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes. – Russell Lynes
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history. – Russell Lynes
