J. Russell Lynes quote: "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"

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 ...
J. RUSSELL LYNES

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same toke...
J. RUSSELL LYNES

Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence
J. RUSSELL LYNES

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to ...
J. RUSSELL LYNES

The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it. If you ca...
J. RUSSELL LYNES

Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the million...
J. RUSSELL LYNES

What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middl...
J. RUSSELL LYNES

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.
J. RUSSELL LYNES

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remo...
J. RUSSELL LYNES

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

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever...
J. RUSSELL LYNES

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to ...
RUSSELL LYNES

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token...
RUSSELL LYNES

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends wi...
RUSSELL LYNES

The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you ca...
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 ...
RUSSELL LYNES

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he ...
RUSSELL LYNES

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
RUSSELL LYNES

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that h...
RUSSELL LYNES

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.
RUSSELL LYNES

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
RUSSELL LYNES

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is...
RUSSELL LYNES

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.
RUSSELL LYNES

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token...
RUSSELL LYNES

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

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
J. RUSSEL LYNES

The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you c...
J. RUSSEL LYNES

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

As the excesses of 'molecular gastronomy' have slowly faded away, like the smell of a particularly p...
ANDY LYNES

I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, an...
RUSSELL WILSON

There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.
RUSSELL CROWE

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.
RUSSELL CROWE

I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If ...
RUSSELL CROWE

I believe in singing for my supper. I'll never accept a grant because what I do should be able t...
RUSSELL CROWE

For filmmakers who've made multiple movies, they have experience, but they only have experience ...
RUSSELL CROWE

While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ende...
RUSSELL CROWE

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in ...
RUSSELL CROWE

South Sydney is a very complicated and wonderful place. You have some of the most expensive bits of ...
RUSSELL CROWE

I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.
RUSSELL CROWE

I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a ...
RUSSELL CROWE

It is important to dress for success.
RUSSELL CROWE

If you're a waiter, the worst thing you can do is go to work resenting your job. This will sound...
RUSSELL CROWE

There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.
RUSSELL CROWE

My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says t...
RUSSELL CROWE

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there...
RUSSELL CROWE

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentall...
RUSSELL CROWE

God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.
RUSSELL CROWE

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed d...
RUSSELL CROWE

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a p...
RUSSELL CROWE

I have respect for beer.
RUSSELL CROWE

I've followed Leeds since I was a little kid. I used to come home from sport in the afternoon, m...
RUSSELL CROWE

I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like&...
RUSSELL CROWE

If there is no blood on the line, it is not rugby league.
RUSSELL CROWE

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination.
DAVID RUSSELL

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be belie...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
HAROLD RUSSELL

I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.
HAROLD RUSSELL

My life is a series of things that just happen.
HAROLD RUSSELL

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and s...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the s...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

I'm a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in '96. He was on a record with Sha...
RUSSELL PETERS

The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few.
RUSSELL PEARCE

I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes.
RUSSELL WESTBROOK

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
KERI RUSSELL

I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweate...
CAMERON RUSSELL

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us t...
RUSSELL SMITH

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than c...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people thi...
RUSSELL BRAND

Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything i...
RUSSELL PETERS

My thing is, and I've always been this way - to get to know as many people as I possibly can on ...
RUSSELL WILSON

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on t...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

I believed that I could go to the Super Bowl and win multiple Super Bowls and do all of those things...
RUSSELL WILSON

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Suddenly the ground seemed to give way beneath me,
and I found myself in quite another region. BERTRAND RUSSELL

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, yo...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our...
KURT RUSSELL

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intel...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
CAMERON RUSSELL

My favorite outfit is baggy black corduroy pants and a baggy T-shirt.
CAMERON RUSSELL

I think it's cooler when girls have favorite pieces of clothing rather than an entirely new ward...
CAMERON RUSSELL

Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people ...
CAMERON RUSSELL

When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different pe...
CAMERON RUSSELL

I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is...
CAMERON RUSSELL

The real way I became a model is I won a genetic lottery, and I became the recipient of a legacy.
CAMERON RUSSELL

Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands.
CAMERON RUSSELL

Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible...
CAMERON RUSSELL

Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.
CAMERON RUSSELL

If you are ever wondering, 'If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair will I be happier?' yo...
CAMERON RUSSELL

My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look ...
CAMERON RUSSELL

Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when ...
CAMERON RUSSELL

My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.
CAMERON RUSSELL

You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Int...
CAMERON RUSSELL

Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.
CAMERON RUSSELL

Modelling is an incredible platform.
CAMERON RUSSELL

A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
CAMERON RUSSELL

I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.
CAMERON RUSSELL

Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
CAMERON RUSSELL

Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appear...
CAMERON RUSSELL

Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.
CAMERON RUSSELL

Like many young people, I believe I have potential to make a positive impact in the world.
CAMERON RUSSELL

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia get...
RUSSELL BAKER

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

When I started the diamond business, no black person, period, was in it to do what we're trying ...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

The public doesn't really understand just how far this science has come.
ALAN RUSSELL

I was tribal chairman. I lost my position there. I wanted to be elected again as tribal chairman ......
ALAN RUSSELL

If you don't understand exactly what's going on, it's hard to fully evaluate the risks, and it's har...
ALAN RUSSELL

The time is now to deliver these technologies to our soldiers.
ALAN RUSSELL

We will use tomorrow's technology to treat today's injured soldiers.
ALAN RUSSELL

When you're an athlete, you've got the horse blinders on pretty thick. Your exploration of o...
WYATT RUSSELL

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate gov...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know t...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it ...
RUSSELL BAKER

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundame...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline ...
MARK RUSSELL

Food has replaced sex in my life, now I can't even get into my own pants
BERTRAND RUSSELL

I hate Bollywood. The movies are all garbage, just terrible. It's my opinion; obviously, there a...
RUSSELL PETERS

If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwa...
RUSSELL PETERS

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
RUSSELL BAKER

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
BERTRAND RUSSELL

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
JOHN RUSSELL

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and f...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the si...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Science is what you know, philosophy what you don't know.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for examp...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far b...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
UTTERLY RUSSELL

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privileg...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

The women's team dominance in the throws really set the tone for the squad. For the most part the di...
AARON RUSSELL

A couple injuries and sickness prevented the women's team from getting off to a better start. If we ...
AARON RUSSELL

We believe he was using jumper cables to start his tractor when the accident occurred.
AARON RUSSELL

Someone had come in to them and reported they had seen somebody digging what they thought was a grav...
AARON RUSSELL

With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud w...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

The kids are saying 'Make Love, Not War',
and I'm beginning to think they're right.
For war co...
NIPSEY RUSSELL

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be hap...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more tha...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and fem...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by wearine...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night an...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act l...
DORA RUSSELL

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endure...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing ev...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of p...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
ROSALIND RUSSELL

It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

All movements go too far, and this is certainly true of the movement toward subjectivity, whi...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will sea...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

What makes a belief true or false I call a fact. The particular fact that makes a given belief true ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best inc...
RUSSELL BAKER

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously tran...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the i...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnecte...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hambur...
RUSSELL BRAND

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a cleve...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek ou...
RUSSELL HOBAN

Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ...
PETER RUSSELL

Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, li...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whet...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchston...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but e...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and a...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the se...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to ea...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Do not fear to be excentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the poss...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves a...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to en...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

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

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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

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