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Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.
Russell Lynes
Brains aren’t everything. In fact in your case they’re nothing.
Russell Lynes
I’d agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.
Russell Lynes
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
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
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.
Russell Lynes
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
Russell Lynes
If you took an IQ test, the results would be negative.
Russell Lynes
In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.
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
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence.
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Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.
Russell Lynes
I don’t know what makes you so dumb but it really works.
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Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people.
Russell Lynes
A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.
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Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?
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
I’m sorry, I’m a little busy. Can i ignore you later?
Russell Lynes
Sure, I’d love to help you out…now, which way did you come in?
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
I’d love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can’t count that high.
Russell Lynes
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.
Russell Lynes
Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn’t have given you worse advice.
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
When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
Russell Lynes