19 ordspråk av J. Russell Lynes
J. 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.
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A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes
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Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.
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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.
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Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence
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Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
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Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
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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.
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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.
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In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.
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It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
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It rides horses and is rare in Southern California, except in Pasadena. In Texas it trades at Neiman-Marcus.
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Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.
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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.
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The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it. If you can't top it, laugh at it. If you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.
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