68 Quotes by 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.

Your village just called. They’re missing an idiot.

Sure, I’ve seen people like you before – but I had to pay an admission.

Don’t let you mind wander – it’s far too small to be let out on its own.

I don’t know what makes you so dumb but it really works.

Brains aren’t everything. In fact in your case they’re nothing.

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.

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We’re in high school forever. It’s just what we do with it.

Shouldn’t you have a license for being that ugly?