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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. — 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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