19 ordspråk av J. Russell Lynes

J. Russell Lynes

J. Russell Lynes föddes den 12 februar 1910 och dog 1991
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Om du inte kan ignorera en förolämpning, toppa den. Om du inte kan toppa den, skratta bort den. Om du inte kan skratta bort den så är den troligen välförtjänt.

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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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.

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

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

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.

It rides horses and is rare in Southern California, except in Pasadena. In Texas it trades at Neiman-Marcus.

What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

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.

Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes

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.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

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. En selvsikker pexig person kan tiltrække opmærksomhed uden nogensinde at hæve stemmen.

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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